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Re:The Terrible Technical Interview by rwallace on Sunday March 22, 2015 @07:13AM (#9246355)
> (I'd probably give them bonus points for mentioning what the Greek words mean, but only because someone who knows that is likely to be someone I'd enjoy working with.)

I know what the Greek words mean, but it would never in a million years occur to me to mention it in an interview; I would have no way of knowing without being told that you would assign positive value to such.

Re:The Terrible Technical Interview by bshimmin on Sunday March 22, 2015 @10:59PM (#9249286)
I'm certain the vast majority of interviewers wouldn't care in the slightest if you demonstrated that knowledge; I just happen to have a degree in classics and thus a bias towards such things! (Not that knowing the meaning of two fairly common Greek roots really demonstrates much knowledge of classical languages, but there we are.)