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Comment by Clubber

2 days ago

>The problem is: there is a very negative incentive to give honest answers. If I were to answer these questions honestly, I'd bring up some very interesting theorems (related to some deep algorithmic topics) that I proved in my PhD thesis.

This is unfortunate that you would get that response. FWIW, I would be interested in hearing all this in an interview and I would look at it favorably.

>What I want to point out is that this topic is much more subtle than a "one sentence answer".

Yes, you would definitely get bonus points for nuance. The one sentence answer was minimal. What it filters out are people who don't know anything about Delphi but applying for the job with highly embellished resumes hoping to get lucky. This was for software used in hospitals, so bugs or errant code could have pretty drastic consequences.