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by true_religion 3777 days ago
It means placing an experience in context, and being able to relate it to other contexts.

For example, if you know someone who works with PHP then contextualizing their experience could follow these steps: understand that PHP is a programming language, look at their code and see it is well architected, decide to hire them even despite inexperience in Ruby because they have the core skills.

Being unable to contextualize experience isn't the same as not having emotional empathy. It is being unable to have an actionable intellectual grasp of a topic.

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True, that interviewer should either not be interviewing or perhaps not even be working in this industry then...