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I've done this before:

Me: you've listed Java as "Expert", perhaps you could discuss about <favorite footgun in project>

Interviewee: sweats for a bit, finally admits only used Java factory factory and copied lots of code

Me: ok great, let's move on, you've listed Rust as "Intermediate", lets...

Interviewee interrupts, admits they know how to spell Rust and watched a couple of videos of crabs



I've had a candidate that had Apache Spark on the resume, turns out he was sitting in a room with other people who were writing Spark jobs.


Wow, do you use Spark in production? I can't claim to have much experience with it, I just played around with it a loooong time ago, but I was impressed. I thought it went out of use along with Hadoop and HBase, glad to hear this is not the case. Are you hiring? :-D


Out of use? Databricks is like 40 billion dollar company providing basically "managed Spark" platform.


I had a guy tell me he had experience with Apache's mod_rewrite module and, when asked what its purpose was, he said verbatim "It gives you, like, more commands and stuff."

Other questions were met with equally disastrous responses.




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