> I brought in a guy that hadn’t programmed professionally in years, in fact he didn’t even have programming on the first page of his resume. However, he had been practicing while looking for a job and he rocked my programming interview. He reasoned through the problem, wrote the code, it ran perfectly the first time. I hired him.

And yet, I have a computer science master with an 8.1 (equivalent to a 4.0 GPA) and companies like Spotify/Google won't even give me a chance to do an automated online coding test.

> One other thing: if I ask for a program sample ahead of an interview, don’t even think about sending in code that doesn’t include unit tests.

I haven't learned about testing in school or at my previous jobs or freelance gigs. Where's a good place to practice it? I mean, I know what assert does and all but I don't have a strong mentality to write a unit test, unless I'm writing code that is finicky like a Red Black tree, then I do write some tests.

I hate these snarky posts, because I don't even get to an interview. In all fairness, maybe I shouldn't apply to A-tier companies such as:

- Google

- Facebook

- Spotify

- Digital McKinsey (I did some business studies back in the day)

Shout out to Optiver and OpenAI for giving me a chance though. Optiver made me realize I needed to brush up on my algorithms in the first place. OpenAI made me realize that I need to brush up on my math.