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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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[-] ValenThyme@reddthat.com 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I had an interview like this, it was supposed to be Pair Programming which i had been doing very well for 5 years in RoR.

I get to the interview and they haven't actually done any pair programming, they WANT to.

And the interview was 'write a tic tac toe game in ruby on rails in one hour'

And they literally had nothing, we were in the zoom call the guy was like 'okay go' but every time i asked him any questions he told me to just do whatever i thought was right and he didn't want to influnce me.

I got RoR and dependencies and apache installed and either finished or almost finished mariadb in that hour but i was doing it all over my own home internet so didn't really get very far and they seemed really annoyed!?!

Then the best part was the senior programmer told me that they don't have time to do code reviews and all the engineers just merged whatever they wanted into master, but it was fine that way. I think he didn't like having anyone review his code.

LOL

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

That last part is a nightmare

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