[kat]

Totally agree! My current team always asks increasing complex questions in an interview until we the candidate admits 'I dont know that'. People with good soft skills can easily say 'I dont know, what does happen in that case?'. They come off as polite and self-aware. My other favourite interview question is what do you do when QA says they can reproduce a bug but you cant? A lot of developers don't have the soft skills to explain how they work with QA instead of against QA.

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I mean you definitely need the culture for that, not every place is like that. Too often I have worked with people accusing me of not knowing about the Domain in question enough. (Even if it's something that can be learned in a short amount of time, if would be properly explained...) And what happens is then that I must work on something else.

Especially in really culturally old school IT places you need to earn your (invisible) badges.

So you are definitely right but at many places you shoot yourself in the foot with that big time...