On: People suck at technical interviews

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I'm with @lostcolony: if I were interviewing and a candidate said "don't do that, it's unpredictable, do this instead" it's a great answer.

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At the same time though, as someone looking for their first dev job, I'm not going to tell the interviewer "don't do that." Given the people I've met in industry, I can't see that ending well- I would expect some variation of "who does this kid think he is!?"

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True, but one time I was asked about the difference between "foo = bar" and "var foo = bar", and my answer was, "Don't do the first."

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You can always phrase it as, "That's ill advised, here's why, my guess is it does X, but you probably shouldn't do that in production code".