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Discussion on: Is is normal or am I worrying too much that I don't know that much?

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Joshua Johnson

1.5 years in any industry still means you are a novice. I would not consider anyone with that length of tenure able to understand all the ends and outs of growing a large scale business application. With that being said, most of the job interviews I conduct are a means to understand how they are willing to handle the situation where they really don't have experience. I take the interviewee to task until they are forced to tell me they don't know something. If they try and hustle like they understand, but they clearly don't, I would not consider them a good developer. I do this because there is so much stuff out there in the world of technology, no person can master all of it. If you try to pretend that you do to get a job, then you will try to pretend when it really counts.