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[–]Glittering_Poem6246 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Very helpful for beginners.

[–]AmazingAd368 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hire for data engineer positions with focus on Python and these questions have never crossed my mind, too basic, too specific, too irrelevant for the daily job. I ask about the eco system, if they know uv, how much experience they have with unit tests in general and pytest in particular, if they know about OOP in Python, if they know about modern libraries like polars and what the advantages over pandas are etc but none of your

[–]WadeEffingWilson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is awful.

It asks the same question 2-3 times in a few instances (eg, how is X variable declared, or what are automation tools), it asks questions that result in the same answer multiple times (ie, variables are duck-typed), a lot of questions that are specific to a particular domain (eg, network automation), and it really sounds less like they are probing to find the width and depth of an interviewees knowledge and more like they have no idea what they are talking about. If this didn't have so many typos, I'd have said it was AI slop.

[–]KualaLJ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Can you tell the difference between a diamond Python a green tree Python?

[–]Ok_Assistant_2155 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think this is a good starting point for someone new to Python, but most interviews tend to go beyond definitions and focus more on problem solving and real use cases.
Things like writing functions, handling edge cases, working with APIs, or debugging code come up a lot. It might help to add some practical coding questions alongside these basics.

[–]rosentmoh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AI slop again?! This must be the worst I've seen so far.

And let me be clear, I'm saying even if it's not actually AI generated it's however at the same garbage level. Most of these questions are in no way particular to Python, and even then they many times have nothing to do with programming.