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The arrogance test

The arrogance test.

Show an engineer AI-generated code and see if their immediate reaction is dismissal.

In our technical interviews, I ask candidates to share their screen and actively encourage them to use any resources they need. Google, documentation, even AI/LLMs.

We're not running an exam. We're testing for a proactive, curious, and collaborative colleague. The goal is to observe how you think and debug - not whether you've memorized function signatures or library calls (which, if the first is true, you get out of the box).

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Published: Mon, Nov 17 2025 @ 10:16:33
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