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[–] 68 points 3 months ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 37 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 27 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I completely agree with your first paragraph.
    But TheFogan was probably not explaining UDP to an HR person in this scenario.

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    This is done, especially in government work, to limit bias in the interview process. Ideally, though, the people conducting the interviews understand the questions they're asking and can use some judgement and give credit if someone explained a concept but didn't hit the specific keyword.

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