Indeed, not 100% clear but it felt like GP was criticizing the kid.
The kid enters a security related conversation and Bram not only listens but engages in the conversation. Seems like you missed on a great hire.
The kid enters a security related conversation and Bram not only listens but engages in the conversation. Seems like you missed on a great hire.
They're not particularly difficult challenges, just things to see how a candidate approaches a problem. I don't remember what exactly was disconcerting about his approach but I feel like he took a lot of short cuts via google searching and didn't exactly understand what he was doing. This was years ago back when we did in-person interviews though, so my memory isn't 100% on it.
We have a lot of extremely intelligent people with small egos at my company and cockyness like that doesn't really fit super well with our group.