[rohanphadte]

Quick summary of the story - TLDR; sometimes the right answer depends on your interviewing circumstances.

> When I arrived at the interview, there were 2 other guys present. One would be my direct team lead, which was also the technical lead, and the other was his manager.

> Then they moved on to a follow up question: “How does this architecture relate to the model-view-controller pattern?”. I knew this question was really tricky, because I know a lot of people make the mistake of directly linking the tiers to each of the model-view-controller.

> Normally, I would have given the correct answer, and have a nice discussion if they considered it wrong. But the problem was, that this guys manager was sitting next to him. If he didn’t know, I would totally humiliate him in front of his boss. So either he would stick to his guns and refuse the correctness of my answer, to save face. Or he needed to agree that he was wrong, and lose face. Anyway, there was only 1 proper solution to this: I had to answer what they thought was correct.

> The moral of the story? Job interviews are not all about your technical skills, it’s about people skills too. And this is good, because you need both in your job.