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		DavidWoof on April 28, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cargo Cults and Interview Questions Put another way, you had (have?) astonishingly poor interview techniques but this one time you got lucky?

JoeAltmaier on April 28, 2012 [–]

You could pretend that. Or you could say, we valued his intelligence and readily-apparent ability to learn over 'fizz-buzz' nonsense questions and cargo-cult interview style.

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