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Re:Never ask a candidate to rate themselves out of 10 by pton_xd on Monday July 08, 2024 @02:31PM (#40907992)
> Anybody who gave an answer of 5 or above was an immediate no-hire :-) Because nobody is more than a 4 out of 10 on knowledge of C++.

You'd definitely hire programmers with the same sense of humor I suppose.

I do agree that asking to rate one's knowledge of C++ is an obvious trap question. Any reasonably seasoned person would probably laugh and respond with another question, "... which part?" But yeah they'd have to share your sense of humor.

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Re:Never ask a candidate to rate themselves out of 10 by drewcoo on Monday July 08, 2024 @05:01PM (#40909647)
> You'd definitely hire programmers with the same sense of humor I suppose.

There are many ways to structure interviewers to hire clones of yourself.

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Re:Never ask a candidate to rate themselves out of 10 by rhelz on Wednesday July 10, 2024 @08:01PM (#40932662)
How would you rate yourself on a scale, from 1 to 10, on C++ knowledge? 1 being you know C, 10 being you are Bjarne Stroustrup or Bruce Eckle? Personally, I was a 4 back in 1996, and have monotonically fallen since then.
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