what I experienced is writing
code that generates a sql query
to the parameters that's taken
from the frontend which had
NOTHING to do with interview
questions
The fucking snobbery, and nerd signaling that goes on during a coding interview gets so thick, that sometimes I'll just laugh in someone's face and throw the interview.
Hey, hey, buddy, are you cool enough
to merge this array, AND sort it? Okay
Now implement a linked list and then
detect a circular reference. Okay, now
reconstruct it as a directed acyclic graph.
Okay, but can you do it...
...all in one line????
Solve the travelling salesman problem
in 10 seconds or less. Whatsa matter?
Never HEARD of it? You call yourself a
programmer?
Okay, well your ad-hoc pseudocode in this
code pen isn't even O(log N) so we can't
hire you. I know this because the code pen
raised a compiler warning about your include.
...and also suggested this coding challenge to
me via auto complete. But yeah, we'll keep
your resume on file. Thanks!
Oh, but the best is, they want to hire you, but they can't tell you anything about the job until you sign an NDA. Big secrets. Watch out!
Then, you look at their stack, and it's all canned open source bullshit, used off the shelf. Like, hello? What are you smoking. Every other shop is using this shit. It's fucking LAMP. It's GPL'd. Okay, fucking sue me with mutant nuclear apocalypse lawyers. You will get: ZERO DOLLARS BECAUSE YOU WILL HAVE FIRED ME FOR BREACH OF CONTRACT, AND THIS WAS MY ONLY SOURCE OF FUCKING INCOME. WHAT DOES THIS NDA EVEN ACCOMPLISH? SHALL I SIGN IT IN BLOOD?