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0 pointsstcredzero7y ago0 comments

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.

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ryanchoi7y ago

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. :)

stcredzeroOP7y ago

And I was roleplaying as myself, rejecting the company.

hluska7y ago

That was nicely done and I agree - I'd rather be unemployed than work for a company that would think through something like that! Great job. :)

DoofusOfDeath7y ago

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

stcredzeroOP7y ago

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.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse

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ryanchoi7y ago

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. :)

stcredzeroOP7y ago

And I was roleplaying as myself, rejecting the company.

hluska7y ago

That was nicely done and I agree - I'd rather be unemployed than work for a company that would think through something like that! Great job. :)

DoofusOfDeath7y ago

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

stcredzeroOP7y ago

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.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse