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Re:What not to ask technical people in interviews by blindhippo on Thursday February 23, 2012 @02:51PM (#3626427)
The people who ask what your passion is and are looking to hear that you program for the heck of it are simply trying to cash in. Likely you'll be willing to work longer hours and get paid less then your knowledge is worth because you'll get to work on "exciting and challenging stuff!".

I've met several people who think this is the only way to hire "real" programmers. They never get it when I point out that no other profession operates in this manner.

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Re:What not to ask technical people in interviews by tweak2live on Thursday February 23, 2012 @03:48PM (#3626693)
What these same people also fail to realize is that just because you enjoy working on "exciting and challenging stuff!" doesn't mean you will find debugging their firm's spaghetti code exciting.

Yes, there are projects on which I would work 10-15 hours a day with minimal pay but, odds are - yours isn't one of them.

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Re:What not to ask technical people in interviews by Drbble on Thursday February 23, 2012 @11:23PM (#3628022)
Bitterness is extremely easy to detect and is one of thered flag culture-fit no-hire reasons at my office.

Passion is passion. Bad pay is bad pay. They are orthogonal.

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