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Super interesting on the sleepsort thing, amazing stuff! But for some reason, the tone and the excessive acrobatics/"bragging" kind of get the best of the article away for me.

Okay, if the interviewer had properly done 5 minutes of research on this candidate, they would know know that the candidate is "way over their pay grade". I found all that dance that the article author did a little bit... unnecessary? Kind of how killer whales play with their prey before the kill. Overkill.

Sorry, my answer probably isn't productive, I am merely sharing how I felt after reading it.

I am now off to educate myself on SleepSort :-)

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The tone is styled off another popular series :)

https://aphyr.com/posts/341-hexing-the-technical-interview

It's the mark of a toxic person probably. But aren't we all to some extent ? I too am fed up of candidates so shit we need to grind them through linked list and sorting exercise to find the one that can actually code a simple function, out of the 50 we interview that couldn't even start writing.

People have no idea how many candidates try to apply to backend dev job in an investment bank for 100k a year in China with NO experience in banking, computer science or life in general. Between the guys telling you their dream job is to do nothing and be paid for it, and the dude looking beyond his screen at his friend filling the exercise for him, I've seen it all.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2657277

Archive (slightly NSFW text) https://archive.tinychan.net/read/prog/1295544154

it's not an article though, it's a fictitious story, so of course everything is embellished for comedic effect.

Seriously? I can't think of a single instance where an interviewer has spent more than a cursory 5 seconds reading a candidate's CV before interviewing them. Many times not even that much courtesy.

God yes. In case it's funny, I have a bit that I left on the cutting room floor where it's like:

Jeff started again to speak, maybe he actually read your resume. That would be a first. "So it says here that uhhhh-".

Alas, he did not. You wonder why you make that thing if nobody is going to actually read it. You even spent the extra time putting it into normal human language too. The travesty of recruiting continues.

Or something like that. There is so much about the job seeking process that is just stupid and frankly funny.

I'm considering giving Palima an intern in the next article, just because that would be hilarious to me.

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