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> Production immediately came to a screeching halt. However, in under an hour, I discovered that a coworker had polluted an even lower level of the ORM framework with business logic.

"I see. So you failed to communicate effectively with a coworker, which resulted in an hour of downtime. I didn't hear you mention anything about seeing this as a problem, let alone addressing it. Thanks for your time."

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So you failed to communicate effectively with a coworker, which resulted in an hour of downtime.

Nope. He was privy to our stopping the flow of business logic into the DB/ORM code. He failed to realize the implications and communicate with us.

I didn't hear you mention anything about seeing this as a problem, let alone addressing it.

Pure projection. Of course that's a problem. Thanks for disqualifying yourself up front.

I figure you wanted to defend your take regardless, but the quotes indicated to me that the parent was posing as the company that wanted to reject the candidate no matter what the answer was. :)

And I was roleplaying as myself, rejecting the company.

That was nicely done and I agree - I'd rather be unemployed than work for a company that would think through something like that! Great job. :)

That's right. I was trying to play devil's advocate by showing that a sufficiently malicious interviewer can throw mud on almost anything.

I was trying to play devil's advocate by showing that a sufficiently malicious interviewer can throw mud on almost anything.

Or try too hard to, and reveal their true intentions.

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