Re:The best engineering interview question I've ever gotten
by kubanczyk on Monday April 18, 2022 @05:08AM
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I think the author made a fool of himself.
> their testing procedures had proven that he was not intelligent enough to do anything else
I see the final sentence as entirely detached from the rest of the story.
My take: Their testing procedures had detected he had lacked basic awareness of the situation. When he received a (written!) communication, he wasn't able to imagine that the author was not the smarter version of himself despite a multitude of clues. The idea didn't occur to him.
> their testing procedures had proven that he was not intelligent enough to do anything else
I see the final sentence as entirely detached from the rest of the story.
My take: Their testing procedures had detected he had lacked basic awareness of the situation. When he received a (written!) communication, he wasn't able to imagine that the author was not the smarter version of himself despite a multitude of clues. The idea didn't occur to him.