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reason enough to fail the interview (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by groctel@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

Its not a gotcha question though, is ambiguous to see if you ask for more information or just make assumptions.

We are losing a large account at work because a team provided a solution to a customer based on their initial issues without asking for more info on what the root issue was.

Had they just asked "why are you needing to do this particular thing?" The while solution would have been different.