However, I am in consulting, and was on the bench. My manager forced me to do an interview for coding. The questions were absurd. Literally reading vocabulary terms and looking for exact definitions to things.
I continually asked what their problem was, what they were trying to solve, what steps they faced, etc. They just kept asking questions like above. And every time I'd get it "wrong" they'd say "we were looking for... <googled definition here>.
Honestly what is the point? I feel really bad for kids today. I get all my jobs through word of mouth and networking now. Why? Because it's much easier and those ways almost always have better outcomes.
I work at FAANG as a backend engineer, and so I don't know this one either.
Strange postscript that suggests you hold some problematic opinions that indicate you can't play nicely with others?
Did you fail to get the job because you didn't have the tech chops or is it because you said something wildly inappropriate on the behavioural questions?
What did you say?
"Are you a leftist? We only hire leftists."
So if you don't want to hire assholes who think "diversity" is a dog whistle, you hire leftists.
Inclusivity does not mean having to include those that would exclude others.
But if you exclude all non leftists, that's about 2/3 of all Americans. And that looks very tribal to the rest of us.
The mandatory brilliant essay on this: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anythin...
But that's being overly provocative.
Ultimately this started with you saying that a question about diversity could be heard by some as a dog whistle that only leftists are welcome.
I simply don't agree with that premise. I do think there is a percentage of people who think diversity is a left-only issue, but I don't think that's 2/3rd of Americans. Then again, Donald Trump hovers around 50% approval rating regardless of what he does, so maybe I have too high an opinion of Americans.
It wasn't "triggering" or anything! I happy gave my opinion and moved on to the other questions.