Where you can and cannot thrive on BS

Re:Where you can and cannot thrive on BS by mianos on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @08:00PM (#34333639)

While this may be true, it takes more than just engineering skill for this to work in a predictable manner. Often an engineering interviewer takes their ego into the process and it becomes a competitive game or an opportunity to show how smart they are.

I 100% agree with you but it's not as easy and scaleable as it seems.

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Re:Where you can and cannot thrive on BS by neilv on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @08:22PM (#34333842)

Agreed, interviewer ego slipping in can be a problem.

Interviewer training can help avoid that happening accidentally.

(And Leetcode interviews don't avoid the interviewer ego problem. It's purportedly "objective", but the interviewer can easily taint it, accidentally or intentionally. The answer isn't Leetcode, but to train or reign in egos, and then you can use a real conversation.)

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