I’ve noticed people apologize a lot in interviews for not knowing something. I used to do that too. Now I see that saying “I haven’t worked with that yet, but here’s how I’d learn it” lands much better. How do you handle questions you don’t know?

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If you have at least a rudimentary understanding of what they are asking, sometimes you can pivot with “I know that Kubernetes namespaces provide logical separation. How are you using Kubernetes namespaces in production?”. If you don’t have any knowledge of what they are using, it gets a little tricky. You’ll have to guess. “I haven’t used monads. I have used React hooks which I think are similar. How are you using monads in your code base?”

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I agree. When it’s all box checking and no dialogue, it tells you a lot about the team. Interviews should be a two way signal, not a one sided quiz.

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