How do you answer "Rate yourself" questions?

Posted by Vinoth Kumar on Programmers See other posts from Programmers or by Vinoth Kumar
Published on 2011-03-18T10:58:31Z Indexed on 2011/03/18 16:18 UTC
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Hi , I have been frequently asked questions like "Rate yourself in java"

It goes like

interviewer : Rate yourself in java on the scale of 10

me: 9

interviewer : Rate yourself in J2EE

me : 8

....

But really I just come up with arbitrary numbers. Sure I know Java well , but what does it mean to say "9 out of 10" . I think it is a very subjective question, that does not make sense overall.

The problem is ,if I say 9 , If I am not able to answer any question , the interviewer might think , "this guy just said 9" . On the other hand If I said 6 , there is a good chance the interviewer might think "He rates himself this low...not good"

How do you respond to such questions ?

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