"how technical are you?" "how technical is she?" This is such a bullshit question, and one I'm going to try to stop asking. In almost every case what we really mean is just "how familiar are you with this problem set?" and perhaps "in what capacity?"
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I was at a coffee shop earlier today, listening to these two middle aged white dudes confidently assess how "technical" various folks were, and it set my teeth on edge. Guarantee neither of them could even have defined what they meant by the word.
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When I was at Facebook, even years in, I'd walk into a meeting room -- representing all of Parse engineering -- and someone would look me up and down and ask: "how technical are you, exactly?"
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As though there is a single skill set that could plausibly stand in for "technical.". Math? I failed a lot of math. Writing code? What kind of code? How fast, to do what problems? Does it stand for implementation or novel design or comprehension? It's a bullshit term.
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Replying to @mipsytipsy
I read the question as: "if we just had to make what we're making, to a fixed specification, and didn't have to sell anything, interact with users, adapt to new requirements, etc., how much of a role would you have?"
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But I think for some ppl "technical" is even more exclusive than that...
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