What are some red flags for you when interviewing software engineers?

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The reply by Rustin is some of the most incredible r/iamverysmart BS I've seen.

That was incredibly hard to read - filled with grammatical errors and fake insight. If the intent of this post was to start an HN conversation about interview red flags, the submitter should have created an Ask HN. The linked page is likely going to torpedo any useful discussion in favor of comments like this.

> were not able to describe what projects they are currently working on or were working in the past and what role they had

That's kinda hard for me to answer too... Our hierarchies are flat, so there aren't even offical senior or junior roles or so. Everyone is "just" a developer. We got those 2 guys that are better at designing architectures, and that one guy that knows every detail of the software because he worked here for 30 years.But everyone else just implements tasks and fixes bugs within their business logic area.

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