Thank you for your reply Ben. As you stated the key point of any interview is to have a conversation around a question. I'm not pretending that the question "What is Git fork?" was intentionally created to confuse or derail a prospective but having to see in response the interviewee correction ("stars" would be immensely happy to do that) or mentioning that "a fork isn't a Git concept" for the rest of us is a solid and clear sign of a conceptually strong candidate (and that was "the" intention). It's again my pleasure to say thanks to you and AleX for pointing it out in a first place but let me leave that question title as it is to be the "anti-pattern" some people will stumble on and discuss :)
Aleksei, I just want to note that you could have approached this whole situation in a much more constructive way. And since you're generally a great community member, I just want to remind you to take the time to address issues you see in a less provocative way.
I know you're acting in good faith, so just want to remind you that expressing tone on the web can be hard but we have high standards for community members to put in the effort to be good about this stuff.
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Thank you for your reply Ben. As you stated the key point of any interview is to have a conversation around a question. I'm not pretending that the question "What is Git fork?" was intentionally created to confuse or derail a prospective but having to see in response the interviewee correction ("stars" would be immensely happy to do that) or mentioning that "a fork isn't a Git concept" for the rest of us is a solid and clear sign of a conceptually strong candidate (and that was "the" intention). It's again my pleasure to say thanks to you and AleX for pointing it out in a first place but let me leave that question title as it is to be the "anti-pattern" some people will stumble on and discuss :)
Thanks for the comment Ben here.
Aleksei, I just want to note that you could have approached this whole situation in a much more constructive way. And since you're generally a great community member, I just want to remind you to take the time to address issues you see in a less provocative way.
I know you're acting in good faith, so just want to remind you that expressing tone on the web can be hard but we have high standards for community members to put in the effort to be good about this stuff.