Timeline for Why was I asked general, non-technical questions during an interview?
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| Dec 21, 2011 at 22:28 | history | edited | maple_shaft♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Clarification |
| Dec 21, 2011 at 18:36 | comment | added | Adam Lear♦ | @stackoverflowuser2010 and others: I think this conversation has gone far enough. Comments will be cleaned up. maple_shaft, if you can clarify your answer to emphasize the point that you're not judging one culture to be superior to another, I'd appreciate that. Hopefully that way we can avoid restarting or prolonging this argument in comments. Thanks. | |
| Dec 21, 2011 at 17:19 | comment | added | flamingpenguin | Ermmm, sorry to be a bust, but I was wondering if someone could cite some quantitative scientific research that supports the assertions being made about "people of Asian cultures" and "westerners" in this post? Where did these claims about the behaviour of maybe several billions of people come from? I would also like to know why the assumption is made that the amazon interviewer is first language english and not infact Asian himself? Or am I missing the point? | |
| Dec 21, 2011 at 17:15 | comment | added | Jesvin Jose | Your answer made me chuckle: I am an Indian and belong to a church as old as Christianity itself :D But yes, I do feel frustrated by people screwing up things by being blindly obiedient to superiors and not owning upto their weaknesses. | |
| Dec 20, 2011 at 20:31 | comment | added | Matthieu | @maple_shaft: It's always surprising, at least for me, how people can differentiate themselves from each other even with geographic proximity and common ancestors. But they do extensively, and it has a strong impact in professional life. Just take for exemple the way you write resumes. | |
| Dec 20, 2011 at 20:25 | comment | added | tdammers | @maple_shaft: my point exactly - even though they share most of their history, there are noticable cultural barriers, which is kind of interesting (and often amusing if you're fluent in both). | |
| Dec 20, 2011 at 20:17 | comment | added | maple_shaft♦ | @tdammers Yes these are good examples, but Dutch and German both derived from germanic tribes and both were heavily influenced by Judeo-Christian principles. They have more in common than say Dutch and Chinese, where Chinese is heavily influenced by Confucious, Taoist and Buddhist ideals. | |
| Dec 20, 2011 at 20:10 | comment | added | tdammers | Cultural barriers like the ones you describe even exist between Western cultures that are otherwise closely related, such as Dutch and German (such as Dutch employees being expected to speak up against their superiors much more than Germans, but also the way you word an argument, etc.) | |
| Dec 20, 2011 at 19:26 | comment | added | Bill K | Great insights. I hadn't considered how profound the difference was in base cultural values and I think this knowledge could be very useful for people coming from other cultures. | |
| Dec 20, 2011 at 15:52 | history | answered | maple_shaft♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |