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Programmers of Lemmy, what are your interviewing horror stories? (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)

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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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[-] dariusj18@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago

I know people don't like the technical interview, but for me, it's not about knowledge but process. I don't care that you don't have something memorized or don't know the syntax without your linter. I want to see how you figure it out. I was interviewing for a junior web developer, and I gave them the task of fizzbuzz. I told them it was OK to use Google or any other tool. The interview ended with the prospect in tears. I felt very bad and told them they could finish it outside the interview and send it to us (they didn't). Somehow, they were still on our shortlist.

[-] HeckGazer@programming.dev 3 points 3 weeks ago

Yep, this is exactly it. Always hire the smart noob over the experienced idiot.

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