The technical interview is an ego trip

Re:The technical interview is an ego trip by hashkb on Friday September 11, 2020 @09:03PM (#24448947)

False. We want you to be confident and admit you Google all day every day. Simple as that. You seriously would have done all that before Googling it?

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Re:The technical interview is an ego trip by elmersglue on Saturday September 12, 2020 @01:04PM (#24453809)

People assume interviews are to prove technical competence. Answering with “Google it” is more of a test of someone’s humour. While in practice it might be true that you’d Google it, most people have been conditioned by the education system to answer with something more substantive and demonstrative of their technical thinking ability.

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Re:The technical interview is an ego trip by hashkb on Sunday September 13, 2020 @10:44AM (#24461178)

I'm not responsible for your conditioning. I want you to tell me the truth. If you're playing a game in your mind that causes you to give me a more complex answer than you need because you think that's what I want to hear, you're going to have similar pathology as an employee and IMO this is a great screen for exactly that!

Edit: doing any "technical" work prior to doing research is a display of technical INcompetence.

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Re:The technical interview is an ego trip by swatkat on Friday September 11, 2020 @10:30PM (#24449334)

>> We want you to be confident...

Who is this “we”?

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Re:The technical interview is an ego trip by hashkb on Saturday September 12, 2020 @12:06AM (#24449763)

Interviewers who want to make sure you don't think Googling is shameful.

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Re:The technical interview is an ego trip by akdas on Saturday September 12, 2020 @03:46AM (#24450697)

Every interview is different. You're asking people to read your mind: https://hiringfor.tech/2020/03/02/are-you-asking-candidates-...

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Re:The technical interview is an ego trip by hashkb on Sunday September 13, 2020 @10:40AM (#24461159)

That article doesn't seem to contain a point relevant to this particular issue.

If I ask you "How can you attempt to get the answer to this in under a minute" or "what's the first thing you would do" and you don't say "search for existing solution" (it doesn't have to be Google), you fail. You don't have to read my mind; I want to know where YOUR mind goes first. And if it goes to anything more complicated than "I'll try to look it up" you just simply fail; I can't afford to have you wasting any more of my business' time.

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Re:The technical interview is an ego trip by blackflame7000 on Saturday September 12, 2020 @09:46AM (#24452377)

Note: This doesn’t work Bing

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