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DeVliegendeHollander comments on An Experiment In Social Status: Software Engineer vs. Data Science Manager - Less Wrong Discussion

19 Post author: JQuinton 15 July 2014 08:24PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 04 May 2015 02:36:12PM 0 points [-]

A more high-status response is to say something trivial and humorous, or even meta, such as "sometimes I don't answer questions I don't like". This is slightly impertiment, not impertinent enough to actually offend the interviewer but enough to send an I-am-high-value-and-know-it message.