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jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months agoNothing boosts your impression on people like making them feel stupid. RIP
Yeah, but that’s not what this was.
Interview asked about thing then does not get joke about most basic property of thing. Either the interviewer is incredibly incompetent or incapable of getting a joke.
It’s a weird situation even for a job interview.
I mean I think he got it after a few seconds, he did laugh, and then comment how everything was so serious before then and it took him a bit to get it. I don’t think that was why I didn’t get the job.
Humour is not universal, and cracking jokes in an interview is high risk no reward. I’ve rejected candidates that made inappropriate jokes before. Intentions don’t really matter, there’s 10 more candidates.
Why do you keep moving the goal posts? We’re not talking about inappropriate jokes or someone being an ass during an interview. Honestly, if an interviewer wastes my time like this I’m ending the interview. Good luck finding just one more guy matching my talents.
I didn’t move to goal post at all. In any interaction, you need to gauge the vibe before moving to the next level. Workplace humour is sensitive, and you should drop a joke you’re not confortable not landing.
Interviews are also (if not primarily) a measure of cultural fit. Making tasteful jokes is absolutely appropriate, but depends on the culture. I wouldn’t want to work at a place that is too uptight for some humor.
The UDP joke isn’t one that I’d probably use, but doesn’t feel out of place in the context of detailing the protocol.
Hey man, it’s not my fault other people are stupid.
What was that Marge meme? It’s true, but he shouldn’t say it :P
I mean, you would think most people would be used to that feeling by now.
captcha@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 2 months ago
I wouldn’t expect this joke to make someone feel stupid if they know what UDP is, so it feels like it was a safe bet
yakko@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Interviewing is (ideally) quite a structured type of conversation, when is a job interview. A lot of people have to lock in pretty hard to deal with how unnatural it is, and they might not have the spare bandwidth to catch a joke.
Especially not someone from HR, they’re fucking troglodytes.
TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
I completely agree with your first paragraph.
But TheFogan was probably not explaining UDP to an HR person in this scenario.
MSBBritain@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh I’ve seen some pretty bad interviewing, where HR is sent in with a question sheet and a box to tick for which key words the interviewee mentioned per question.
Obviously a red flag and useless method of interviewing, but it does happen frighteningly often. Especially where the IT team is so understaffed, they can’t spare the time to do interviews.
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
yakko@feddit.uk 2 months ago
Well sure, but the context for my comment was the unnatural-ness of a structured job interview. If you’re just just pantsing it, such interviews follow a script, and that’s not how we normally talk to each other.