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Re:Red flags I saw while doing technical interviews by Throysksk282 on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @01:16PM (#24483813)
If you have to sit down and deeply think about a question like fizzbuzz then as an interviewer I'd be a bit concerned - this is a quick check to make sure you're basically competent, not architecture of a critical piece of infrastructure.

If you just don't like hand writing and prefer typing, then that's cool with me and you can just do that during the interview (the content of interview is important, not the medium you write with).

If you're mentoring a 25 year old you'll have to prove yourself to them every day.

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Re:Red flags I saw while doing technical interviews by jhayward on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @01:30PM (#24484027)
> If you're mentoring a 25 year old you'll have to prove yourself to them every day.

No, you won't. If they don't want to listen to you, they don't have to. As a mentor it's my job to listen to them and guide them with experience as my context, not joust with them over irrelevant, stupid, gotcha contests. And I'm happy to help them realize that just by not engaging in it.

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