I've interviewed some mid level engineers lately, and I don't know if it's me getting older or culture shifting, but they seem much less opinionated than I was in their age, both for what they like or not. I'm in mid thirties and they just around 30 usually Of course you should not be some autistic flamewar boy, but that's not what I mean here. More like people agreeing with most technical points and never defending why (or what they thought about) the tech they worked with. What do you think , is it important for developers to have well founded opinions about things or should they wanna work with most things regardless? For me it feels I can trust them less then
But disagreement is good in a development team, since it brings the best arguments forward
Yea but not in an interview setting
What i think about my peers? I don't know man ...
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What company do you work for? There could be a strong bias because of what people read about your company on Blind.
A mid sized one in Germany without blind presence
Severely stereotyping here... Oh, Germany, can one have an explicitly stated opinion that might contradict with their management? I worked with a team from Germany and it took me some effort to get their thoughts out shared with the team.
You rejected a lot of capable candidates. Lol. If you go in for an interview, would you be strong minded of some sort? This is an interview, man.
Coming from Google? 😂😅🤣 Yes I wanna work in a fair and open environment where all opinions are accepted, not just because reasons. One big thing I being a senior engineer is to say no to managers etc
I am in the mentioned group you're referring to (I'm 30), I have opinions and I let them be known (and can back them up). If they don't have opinions they probably haven't actually used the language they put on their resume. I've seen this a lot, things like react, angular etc get them through the initial hr screen/resume evaluation, so the put it on a resume with out ever actually using it to build a product, they may have played with it, but they haven't used it in business.... This is a problem with tech hiring right now though, we focus to much on what languages a candidate has used, instead of if they are a good engineer. A good engineer can learn, evaluate best language for the job.
"If they don't have opinions they probably haven't actually used the language they put on their resume." Yeah exactly my feeling! I am well aware of management might force something etc, but then just say it and it's fine
You get opinionated at FAANG/big company -> you get fired (member James Demore @ G?)
Work is not a place for politics (on either side). Also the OP is clearly talking about technological opinions not political ones.
Walks into a google interview. "Eyyy yo, MapReduce is shit !!!"
Opinions are somewhat more dangerous to share now than ten years ago, or even five years ago.
They have strong opinions, they just don’t want to share them with you in an interview, so they won’t get dinged for ‘lack of culture fit’ or for ‘not being a team player’.
yes, but on the other hand I wanted to reject some of them just because they don't have the culture fit of being able to stand for their opinions.
Change your interview style. Be open that you want to hear their opinions and why they think what they think. Interview older candidates. I’m sure you will get a lot of opinions from them.