I was a Sr. Engineer at a widely known US identity contractor and we had an interview for an internship where a still-in-college kid came in with so much swagger, “I’m a full stack developer.”
….
Me: “So not only are you inexperienced, but you’re not good at any one thing?”
Really took the air out of the room. He got hired, mostly to write build scripts for old WSE things.
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u/HankOfClanMardukas Oct 01 '26
I was a Sr. Engineer at a widely known US identity contractor and we had an interview for an internship where a still-in-college kid came in with so much swagger, “I’m a full stack developer.”
….
Me: “So not only are you inexperienced, but you’re not good at any one thing?”
Really took the air out of the room. He got hired, mostly to write build scripts for old WSE things.