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Ask HN: What are job interview questions that can be used to reject regardless

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Re: Ask HN: What are job interview questions that can be used to reject regardless

#11

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"Tell us a story about how you took down production." We had a real need for batch queries, so I built a declarative batch query mechanism for our in-house ORM. To do this, we needed to make actual objects representing database relations. Unfortunately, the "collections of lambdas" we were using as an ORM had started getting polluted with buisness logic. So I used a parser/rewrite engine to match the un-polluted DB t…

> Production immediately came to a screeching halt. However, in under an hour, I discovered that a coworker had polluted an even lower level of the ORM framework with business logic. "I see. So you failed to communicate effectively with a coworker, which resulted in an hour of downtime. I didn't hear you mention anything about seeing this as a problem, let alone addressing it. Thanks for your time."

So you failed to communicate effectively with a coworker, which resulted in an hour of downtime.

Nope. He was privy to our stopping the flow of business logic into the DB/ORM code. He failed to realize the implications and communicate with us.

I didn't hear you mention anything about seeing this as a problem, let alone addressing it.

Pure projection. Of course that's a problem. Thanks for disqualifying yourself up front.

Re: Ask HN: What are job interview questions that can be used to reject regardless

#13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Production immediately came to a screeching halt. However, in under an hour, I discovered that a coworker had polluted an even lower level of the ORM framework with business logic. "I see. So you failed to communicate effectively with a coworker, which resulted in an hour of downtime. I didn't hear you mention anything about seeing this as a problem, let alone addressing it. Thanks for your time."

So you failed to communicate effectively with a coworker, which resulted in an hour of downtime. Nope. He was privy to our stopping the flow of business logic into the DB/ORM code. He failed to realize the implications and communicate with us . I didn't hear you mention anything about seeing this as a problem, let alone addressing it. Pure projection. Of course that's a problem. Thanks for disqualifying yourself up f…

I figure you wanted to defend your take regardless, but the quotes indicated to me that the parent was posing as the company that wanted to reject the candidate no matter what the answer was. :)

Re: Ask HN: What are job interview questions that can be used to reject regardless

#14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So you failed to communicate effectively with a coworker, which resulted in an hour of downtime. Nope. He was privy to our stopping the flow of business logic into the DB/ORM code. He failed to realize the implications and communicate with us . I didn't hear you mention anything about seeing this as a problem, let alone addressing it. Pure projection. Of course that's a problem. Thanks for disqualifying yourself up f…

I figure you wanted to defend your take regardless, but the quotes indicated to me that the parent was posing as the company that wanted to reject the candidate no matter what the answer was. :)

And I was roleplaying as myself, rejecting the company.

Re: Ask HN: What are job interview questions that can be used to reject regardless

#15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So you failed to communicate effectively with a coworker, which resulted in an hour of downtime. Nope. He was privy to our stopping the flow of business logic into the DB/ORM code. He failed to realize the implications and communicate with us . I didn't hear you mention anything about seeing this as a problem, let alone addressing it. Pure projection. Of course that's a problem. Thanks for disqualifying yourself up f…

I figure you wanted to defend your take regardless, but the quotes indicated to me that the parent was posing as the company that wanted to reject the candidate no matter what the answer was. :)

That's right. I was trying to play devil's advocate by showing that a sufficiently malicious interviewer can throw mud on almost anything.

Re: Ask HN: What are job interview questions that can be used to reject regardless

#16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I figure you wanted to defend your take regardless, but the quotes indicated to me that the parent was posing as the company that wanted to reject the candidate no matter what the answer was. :)

That's right. I was trying to play devil's advocate by showing that a sufficiently malicious interviewer can throw mud on almost anything.

I was trying to play devil's advocate by showing that a sufficiently malicious interviewer can throw mud on almost anything.

Or try too hard to, and reveal their true intentions.

Re: Ask HN: What are job interview questions that can be used to reject regardless

#18
None! There's no question that is needed to reject you. You can answer all questions correctly and be rejected. There's no reason to really think too much of this, go in, answer to the best of your knowledge and be a pleasant person. If the interview decides to reject you due to any prejudice of their own, you probably escaped a nightmare, and the companies loss.
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