[HN Gopher] I was rejected because I told my interviewer I never...
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I was rejected because I told my interviewer I never make mistakes
Author : chedar
Score : 8 points
Date : 2024-02-13 21:45 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| eschneider wrote:
| The candidate seemed delightful.
| jeffrallen wrote:
| Yeah, it's a real "hire, bit not on my team" kind of situation!
| /s
| silisili wrote:
| This is pretty obviously either a troll, or slightly more likely
| the site making up fake letters to respond to them.
| pavel_lishin wrote:
| > _She told me she had a technical background (although she had
| been in management 10 years so it's not like her experience was
| even relevant)_
|
| I want to say that this is absolutely troll behavior, but
| there's actually dingdongs who think like this - and who say
| things like this! - in the real world.
|
| But yes, if I read this on reddit's r/aita subreddit, I would
| assume this was mid-grade fiction.
| manquer wrote:
| [delayed]
| JohnFen wrote:
| I participated in a team interview a few months back with a
| candidate who had about 3 years of experience and an outsized
| opinion of his abilities. Immediately after he had clearly
| demonstrated that he wasn't as skilled as most people would
| be with three years of experience, he straight up declared
| himself to be a "senior software engineer". To experienced,
| working devs.
|
| My team exhibited an amazing ability to avoid bursting out
| laughing until he left.
|
| It's reasonably rare, but every so often you get a real gem.
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