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I was expecting a neat list of questions on the web, and instead was presented with setting up a programming environment just to output them.

You will need Python 3 with the PyYAML, jsonschema, and jinja2 packages installed. Seriously?



I mean or just view them as html. https://doctorj.gitlab.io/interview-questions/ I agree that the system he is set up is almost absurdly complex for what should just be a markdown file.


That misses the answer, followup, and reference. Unless I'm missing something...

- q: Would you say your colleagues are good at reading your emotional state, or still learning? # TODO: Better wording so the answer is not so obvious a: Research shows the most important factor in team effectiveness is psychological safety, a "shared belief held by members of a team that the team is safe for interpersonal risk-taking." One component of this is high "average social sensitivity," or that everyone is good at reading the emotional state of others. followup: Do you feel like your opinion is heard, respected, and valued? ref: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/28/magazine/what-google-learn... pri: 1 tags: [culture]


"How do you avoid over-engineering in this company?" might be a good one to throw in then


Haven't we all been there? We want to setup some great polymorphic abstraction that allows us to adapt it deeply and effortlessly in the future. Then half way in we're like "fuck I actually just needed x, not the whole alphabet". I actually give props that he finished it rather then revert it to something simpler bug uglier (as I would've done).



Was it too stimulating for you to have to set it up? /s




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