> I have decades of coding experience and seemed more familiar with the specific technologies being used than the existing team. Maybe that was part of the problem?
I interviewed at SpaceX and their questions were illuminating.
One question was, "If you supported a set of capable engineers and they were running python scripts in a shared environment, but they were running into performance issues, what would you do?"
My first thought was, "Holy hell, you're letting non-developers run arbitrary code in some sort of Wild West environment and you're wondering why you have issues? Why would you ever do that?"
I did not respond in this way to the interviewer, but my impression of them was somewhat diminished as a result of my discovery and due diligence during the interview.
I think I probably would have responded in that way to the interviewer. Most likely I wouldn't have gotten the offer, but I'm not sure I could have contained myself.
I interviewed at SpaceX and their questions were illuminating.
One question was, "If you supported a set of capable engineers and they were running python scripts in a shared environment, but they were running into performance issues, what would you do?"
My first thought was, "Holy hell, you're letting non-developers run arbitrary code in some sort of Wild West environment and you're wondering why you have issues? Why would you ever do that?"
I did not respond in this way to the interviewer, but my impression of them was somewhat diminished as a result of my discovery and due diligence during the interview.