1/ A friend asked me yesterday for some advice on how to give a good impression during an interview for a junior technical job. I thought a bit about it and gave her my answer, but I thought it might be useful for me to share with other people studying CS and looking to be hired.
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Admitting ignorance can read as honesty for some and incompetence for others depending on interviewer bias, and many interviewers have biases they don't realize. Honesty is good advice, but reality is many candidates don't default to having this honesty received well.
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Your advice would be great if she was interviewing with you. In many situations the person hiring is clueless and is following a script (or worse) and being candid will simply not fly. You may say "you do not want to work there" but many people need to get into jobs like those
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I completely agree with you. For a junior position the attitude towards learning and the ability to acknowledge what they don't know is the main factor when hiring for a junior position. Technical aspects can be learned, willingness to learn is more complicated to achieve
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I disagree with the (unintended) subtext that this is only necessary for a junior position.
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