Timeline for Answering broad technical questions in job interviews
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| Nov 1, 2022 at 13:11 | comment | added | Gregory Currie | @paj28 Comments exist to provide feedback on answers. If you don't agree with the feedback, you can ignore it. | |
| Oct 31, 2022 at 20:21 | comment | added | paj28 | @KateGregory - I just reread this. You should provide an alternate answer that follows what you suggest, rather than moaning that my answer isn't in your style. | |
| Oct 25, 2022 at 15:45 | comment | added | Chan-Ho Suh | Nice answer :). I do feel Andrew's comment is a bit revealing though; summarizing well is a skill, but there may well be nuances the interviewer is trying to pick up on.. something that convinces them (sometime subconsciously) that you're "expert", rather than "merely" knowledgable. | |
| Oct 25, 2022 at 14:01 | history | edited | paj28 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 25, 2022 at 14:00 | comment | added | paj28 | @KateGregory - Yes, you're quite right. This was more intended as a guide to what a good answer could look like, rather than something to memorise. I'll edit to make this clear. | |
| Oct 25, 2022 at 13:05 | comment | added | Kate Gregory | A good answer to this question isn't a paragraph the person can memorize, it's a set of heuristics about how to know how many sentences long your answer should be, what detail level it's at, how to know if the interviewer wants a longer or shorter answer, how to structure it so you can stop after 4 sentences instead of having to do 20 sentences to get to the "good bit", and so on. | |
| Oct 25, 2022 at 12:56 | comment | added | OpenAI was the last straw | Also shows you're at least reasonably up-to-date, since even ten years ago, it would not have been reasonable to describe HTTPS on port 443 as the "usual" configuration, since there were just as many sites out there using HTTP on port 80. | |
| Oct 24, 2022 at 13:47 | history | migrated | from security.stackexchange.com (revisions) | ||
| Oct 24, 2022 at 13:45 | vote | accept | LUser | ||
| Oct 24, 2022 at 13:42 | history | answered | paj28 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |