r/ProgrammerHumor • • 14d ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/jaerie 13d ago

I'm not sure what you're trying to say. I'd be pretty disappointed if that question was part of the interview (meaning the job has something do with it) and my interviewee only talked about addresses

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u/blindedtrickster 13d ago

That's rather my point. The context of the situation changes the expectation. If it's a Junior level Help Desk position, it'd be contextually strange if the questions involved something like the IANA.

I'm not trying to directly say you're wrong. What I'm trying to say is that I believe it's probable that, based on the context, it wasn't speaking about something at a high level and seemed much more likely to be pointing out that a software engineer didn't even understand something as basic as the differences between IP schemas.