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Episode 350: Bombing a technical interview and background vetting

Soft Skills Engineering

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The Unfair Question in an Interview

I'm actually I guess what people are testing for when they give that question in an interview is have you googled this brain teaser in the past? There are some questions like that. Like, wow, I've never seen such an amazing explanation to that problem that only has one answer. Yeah, I don't do well with those either myself. Did not get a job offer because I work there and they asked for my application. You blocked my application. So before we made a truce over this,. Before we agreed, we would not block each other's applications anymore.

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