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It is fun if you ever find yourself in this situation because you can play the uno reverse card on the interviewer and ask to clarify with impenetrable jargon a
by salty_biscuits 2y ago
It is fun if you ever find yourself in this situation because you can play the uno reverse card on the interviewer and ask to clarify with impenetrable jargon and look for rising panic (can I assume the graph contains a Hamiltonian circuit? etc, etc)
- tomrod 2y agoThe answer to this metaShibboleth is only in a Adams space. There are 42 of them, but they must be specified.
- 0xfaded 2y agoAn African swallow or a European swallow?
- boznz 2y agoThose who don't get the reference should immediately turn in their "I'm a nerd" tee-shirts.
- snapcaster 2y agoor they're just younger than you
- citizenkeen 2y agoPeople who quote Monty Python aren’t nerds, they’re just old.
- xarope 2y agonobody expects the spanish inquisition...
- iftheshoefitss 2y ago[flagged]
- usefulcat 2y agoMaybe so, but at least my kids would get that reference.
- alfiedotwtf 2y agoAt least you have kids… We only have an empty hole in the ground covered by a sheet of tarpaulin, but it’s a house to us!
- mensetmanusman 2y agoA hole!! You were lucky, we slept naked in the middle of Death Valley and died twice a day before going to school.
- lynx23 2y agoSo true! Nerds would quote Adams or Gibson.
- BoxOfRain 2y agoI'd dispute that in the UK at least, I think most people of a nerdy disposition tend to at least be aware of the films.
- latentsea 2y agoOne has to know these things when you're a king, you know?
- iftheshoefitss 2y agoNot if you’re the Burger King :)
- johnnyanmac 2y agoDarn, I just bought it too. Unfortunately (after "cheating" and looking it up) Monty Python was a bit ahead of my time. Or at least outside of my community circle.
- compiler-guy 2y agoOr they are one of today’s lucky 10,000. https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/
- lemper 2y agobro it's just reference of not-so-funny skit of monty python. not a big deal by any stretch.
- unholythree 2y agoHe’s not your “bro” little mister, he’s clearly your elder!
- lemper 2y agosorry sis but i don't care if he's old or not. monty python is boring and if you gatekeep people using "jokes" from it, you should reconsider your life.
- Ancalagon 2y agoOP should start interviewing just to record this exact scenario - then share it here for the sweet, sweet schadenfreude.
- klyrs 2y agoNah, when you do that, Murphy's law says that the interviewer will be the only person in the world working on extending nonstandard analysis to spectral hypergraph theory, and my attempt to snow them will reveal that I only have surface level understanding of the jargon I just emitted.
- hughesjj 2y agoThat or they're the super egotistical/arrogant type but too dumb to know you know more than them and assume somehow you're the person who don't know what they're talking about Although in that case bullet dodged.
- xarope 2y agoreminds me of the (apocryphal) joke about James Gosling (who invented Java in 1994); interviewer in 1999: we are looking for someone with 10 years of java experience. james: I invented java 5 years ago.
- bryanrasmussen 2y agowell that guys not getting hired!
- BrandoElFollito 2y agoYou are joking but this may be true. I once was interviewing for an interesting job and the topic was general knowledge of a system made of A, B and C (all were similar). The interviewer did not know much but insisted on some very deep details about B. I told him more than was available in the docs already and at some point I said I would need to peek in the code to say more. He told that this was too difficult for me because only people who were part of the team who designed that would understand. I told him that I wrote almost by myself the A part so it won't be too difficult to catch up with B. I did not get the job (ultimately a happy ending) and was told that I did not know enough on A (the part I wrote).
- darby_nine 2y agoSadly people with power are immune to shame.
- Ma8ee 2y agoI suspect that is one of the reasons they are in power. Shame is what keeps us plebeians in place.
- grugagag 2y agoWe are more populous. Shame we didn’t organize/unionize when time was right.
- Ma8ee 2y agoWe did, but then they managed to convince us that the unions weren't on our side. But there's not much stopping us from organise ourselves again.
- ethbr1 2y agohttps://www.sirlin.net/ptw-book/introducingthe-scrub https://www.sirlin.net/ptw-book/introducingthe-scrub
- rkachowski 2y agoI love this book, but what is your point? :) Exploiting shame is a valid strategy, and defencelessness is a weakness? People are feeling shame because they're inexperienced in power relations? Power relations are fun if you view them as games?
- ethbr1 2y ago> Shame is what keeps us plebeians in place. >> The first step in becoming a top player is the realization that playing to win means doing whatever most increases your chances of winning. That is true by definition of playing to win. The game knows no rules of “honor” or of “cheapness.” The game only knows winning and losing.
- andsoitis 2y ago> can I assume the graph contains a Hamiltonian circuit? Many interviewers will likely ask you: what is a Hamiltonian circuit and can you think of a solution that doesn’t contain a Hamiltonian circuit?
- singpolyma3 2y agoReminds me of the time an interviewer tried to get me to walk through an efficient solution to elevators, so I just proved it was equivalent to travelling salesman.
- galdosdi 2y agoYou gotta be careful. Some interviewers, especially the ones who are going to be peers, or worse, a peer of the hiring manager, might have mixed incentives to avoid hiring someone who could show them up. I feel that happened to me once when I was interviewed for a Java job at a stodgy health insurer and the interviewer tried to test my Java and it quickly became obvious he was really very much a Java beginner and I could run circles around him, correcting his misconceptions. I was polite about it but naive, and it quickly became obvious he was offended and gave inaccurate feedback. Another job, one of my rounds was with a peer of the hiring manager, and he did not ask me anything really beyond introductions, and then he lied and claimed he had asked me several technical questions and I'd failed them, which did not happen. I got that job anyway and accepted the offer, which was a mistake. So actually, you probably don't have to be careful, because this is a good way to avoid a bad job. Unless you're desperate and need to feed the kids or something. Then feel out the interviewer, and do well, but not _too_ well. Don't make the interviewer feel stupid. Save that for after you've been working with them a while and have built up social capital in the company.