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I’m not a technical interviewer specialist, I’m a developer who has in the past given interviews.

Other than filtering out chancers with a lack of required basic skills, one thing that’s always bothered me is how my own personal Dunning-Kruger effect alters the interview process.

I obviously only ask questions I think I know the answers to otherwise how would I know if they were correctly answered?. So that may mean I miss out on candidates with a range of skills I lack and can’t detect in interviews.

Interviewing successfully, I suspect, is a ”difficult” problem if you take it really seriously.

Like those pointless “skills matrixes” that inexperienced managers like to set up for their teams. I mean you can ask me my skill level for a particular subject matter but how can I answer you with any accuracy if I don’t know what I don’t know?



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