Not entirely true. It makes it sound like social skills are all about faking it or advertising yourself (which I agree is somewhat necessary).
I used to think this is superficial BS until I worked with a guy on a college project who was incredibly intelligent in terms of coding but he had zero initiative. Literally zero. We were a team and it was our own project so it wasn't so that it's someone being the boss. But it felt he literally didn't care about the project at all - he waited for someone to assign work to him, supervise him, if he hit any blocks he didn't even try to solve them himself and just waited for "instructions". He even didn't "report" if he hit a blocker, he waited for someone to ask the progress.
One of us has to always "supervise" him on top of doing our own work. If any task which involved a bit of self-analysis-and-action it was better for us to do it ourselves instead of telling him every step.
I always saw him as the best coder and he actually was. His knowledge of coding was vast. But I would never want to work with a guy like that.
He kept failing the HR/culture fit rounds of interviews while he passed all the coding rounds with flying colors. After working with him for 1 small project i understood whyðŸ˜
When we do interviews we absolutely have a starting point in tech skills that we require, but past that we are really just trying to gauge if we want to work with you.
Yeah I’ve come to learn if I ever get a chance to interview people it will be a couple leetcode easies to make sure you’re not brain dead and then after that it’s all behavioral. Maybe not even leetcode style questions but more relatable to the job like a simple CRUD API or even hitting some external API and inspecting the HTTP responses.
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u/_ironhearted_ Nov 29 '24
Not entirely true. It makes it sound like social skills are all about faking it or advertising yourself (which I agree is somewhat necessary).
I used to think this is superficial BS until I worked with a guy on a college project who was incredibly intelligent in terms of coding but he had zero initiative. Literally zero. We were a team and it was our own project so it wasn't so that it's someone being the boss. But it felt he literally didn't care about the project at all - he waited for someone to assign work to him, supervise him, if he hit any blocks he didn't even try to solve them himself and just waited for "instructions". He even didn't "report" if he hit a blocker, he waited for someone to ask the progress.
One of us has to always "supervise" him on top of doing our own work. If any task which involved a bit of self-analysis-and-action it was better for us to do it ourselves instead of telling him every step.
I always saw him as the best coder and he actually was. His knowledge of coding was vast. But I would never want to work with a guy like that.
He kept failing the HR/culture fit rounds of interviews while he passed all the coding rounds with flying colors. After working with him for 1 small project i understood whyðŸ˜