Hacker News Reader

Based on your description of their behavior, the interviewer sounds like an socially insecure and technically incompetent programmer. Even worse would have been if you were hired and worked with this person as organizationally senior to you (shudder). Not exactly "Mr. Mentor" material.

View on HN

I can't imagine a universe where a well-qualified senior developer would be so obsessed with such a pedantic thing. To call the code unreadable because it needs a small refactor... that interviewer was clearly letting their emotions guide their thought process. Advise why to use the namespace, hear what the interviewee has to say, tie off the discussion, and move on.

"Rockstars" who can't teach do long-term damage to engineering culture.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com