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• riskable@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  To be fair, that’s a very open ended question. I mean, what kind of bolt are we talking about? A standard lag bolt? If so you don’t tighten it! That’d be a trick question! You tighten the nut. Same thing applies with car wheel bolts. Tricky tricky!

  Is it a hex bolt that also has a cross head? How tight are we talking?

  I’m just going to assume bolts of lightning and Usain Bolt are of the table.

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  • Aceticon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not really in a bolt tightenning domain, but I have done technical interviews for a lot of devs including junior ones, and them asking all those questions about the task is something I would consider a very good thing.

    At least in my domain the first step of doing a good job is figuring out exactly what needs to be done and in what conditions, so somebody who claims to have some experience who in when faced with a somewhat open ended question just jumps into the how without first trying to figure out the what is actually a bad sign (or they might just be nervous, so this by itself is not an absolute pass or fail thing).

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  • Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m just going to assume bolts of lightning and Usain Bolt are off the table.

    The only thing I know about the procedure for tightening Usain Bolt is that I am not part of performing it.

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  • Bertuccio@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I did actually make the mistake of asking just “which way do you turn a screw” once and the person had the sense to ask “to tighten or loosen it?”

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    • Malfeasant@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Would you have accepted “righty tighty lefty loosely”?

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      • Bertuccio@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah but if they don’t show which is which I ask them to show too.

        Almost everyone gets screw turning right, it just weeds out a few people who say the right things in emails.

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