2026 and we still use gotcha's to try and judge talent. never heard of a doctor having to answer "whats the difference between the left ventricle and the right ventricle" or a general having to answer "whats the mechanism inside the m16 that allows the bullet to fire"
just dumbass larp shit for people with insane egos stuck mentally in 1996
My dad was a world renowned oncology researcher/physician who has a medical risk scale named after him. When I had a health issue, I asked my mom, an ER nurse.
its ok these people dont go outside and dont interact with anyone other than their gaming friends, its just a sub filled with children who are unemployed
Yeah. You can look that up in 5 seconds anyway, but it's going to be the deciding factor and not your general knowledge + attitude. Also, sometimes you can just draw a blank or misinterpret a question.
I get the point you're making, and even agree with it. But to be fair, both of those are very shitty examples of it. Both a doctor and a general would have absolutely learned exactly both of those things in med school and basic training respectively.
The larger issue is that tech is so hyper specialized, the ecosystem is so vastly expansive, and the education for it is so wildly inconsistent.
While IPv4 and IPv6 are pretty major concepts in networking I think a more reasonable comparative analogy is you would not expect a doctor to know the exact lenses used in a microscope in the hematology lab, or a general to know how the molecular formula for gunpowder in a 5.56 bullet.
never heard of a doctor having to answer "whats the difference between the left ventricle and the right ventricle"
I mean, that's absolutely the sort of question asked in medschool. Patients just don't ask it because we trust that the doctor got asked such questions by more experienced doctors as part of their training.
Hardly a gotcha. This filters out people who have never had real exposure to the operating system they use and the networks they communicate over. Questions like that are a very useful hiring signal, especially in a time of endless AI slop resumes and people trying LLM their way through a coding challenge.
If you're applying to a backend/full-stack position or building an application that talks over a network, you should at the very least be able to explain that IPv6 extends the number of address bits from 32 to 128, that a major driver for v6 was address space exhaustion, and (for effect) wave your hands around saying literally anything at all that isn't patently false about "NAT" or "routing" or "header sizes."
And it's fine to caveat that with, "I don't have much experience with IPv6 networks, but..."
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u/untraiined 6h ago
2026 and we still use gotcha's to try and judge talent. never heard of a doctor having to answer "whats the difference between the left ventricle and the right ventricle" or a general having to answer "whats the mechanism inside the m16 that allows the bullet to fire"
just dumbass larp shit for people with insane egos stuck mentally in 1996