Comment by simonw
9 hours ago
My goal in the interview was to get to as accurate a version of what they actually built and how they built it as possible.
I don't think directly accusing them of being misleading about what they had done would have supported that goal, so I didn't do it.
Instead I made sure to dig into things like what QuickJS was doing in there and why it used Taffy as part of the conversation.
3 days ago: (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46743831)
> Honestly, grilling him about what the CEO had tweeted didn't even cross my mind.
Today:
> I don't think directly accusing them of being misleading about what they had done would have supported that goal, so I didn't do it.
I find it hard to follow how it didn't cross your mind while for the same interview you had also considered the situation and determined it didn't meet the interview goal.
I don't think those two statements are particularly inconsistent.
It didn't cross my mind to grill him over his CEO's tweets.
I also don't think that directly accusing them of being misleading would support the goal of my interview - which was to figure out the truth of what they built and how.
If you like, I'll retract the fragment "so I didn't do it" since that implies that I thought "maybe I should grill him about what the CEO said... no actually I won't" - which isn't what happened.
So I guess you win?