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What are your worst interviews you've done? I'm currently going through them myself and want to hear what others are like. Dijkstras algorithm on the whiteboard? Binary Search? My personal favorite "I don't see anything wrong with your architecture, but I'm not a fan of X language/framework so I have to call that out"

Let me hear them!

(Non programmers too please jump in with your horrid interviews, I'm just very fed up with tech screens)

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[-] qantravon@lemmy.world 39 points 3 weeks ago

You’re in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it’s crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can’t, not without your help. But you’re not helping. Why is that?

[-] four@lemmy.zip 14 points 3 weeks ago
[-] JackGreenEarth@lemm.ee 6 points 3 weeks ago

Why did I flip it on its back in the first place? If I was the sort of person to do that, it would be consistent with the behaviour of not turning it back over, but I don't think I am.

[-] Nibodhika@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

That is a very logical way of replying to someone telling you you're the sort of person to flip a turtle. In other words, found the replicant.

[-] inbeesee@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Because there's some tortoise torturing dickhead narrating a fake story about me

[-] hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 weeks ago
[-] leftzero@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 3 weeks ago

You know what a turtle is? Same thing.

[-] Dogs_cant_look_up@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

a) you hate tortoises,
b) you don't want to burn your fingers on the tortoise, and you also hate tortoises.

[-] A_A@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

source of this moovie scene(thanks to GPT 4-o ; i could not fully recal the scene)
This story is a well-known scene from the film "Blade Runner," directed by Ridley Scott and released in 1982. The character Tyrell poses this question to the replicant Leon as a test to explore his empathy and moral reasoning. The tortoise metaphorically represents vulnerability and the moral obligation to help those in need.

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