It was for a job interview, I wouldn't specify what the challenge is but they said I could use any language I want; I chose Python. They said I failed the coding interview because it was not Java.

Sounds like evey college-course ever.

Had something like that as well.

API calls had to be mocked, so when the application didn't work because there was no actual API behind it they saw it as a bug, even though I did exactly as the task description described.
It was for a frontend position, so of course I'm not going to supply a functional backend.

Sounds like interviewers are just stupid.

@Tayo,

Yeah, ran into issues like that in college. Was graded on the timing of a logic circuit. The timing was dependent upon when the teacher pressed the button on a stopwatch when the circuit was started. Also dependent upon the phase of where the timing source was at the time the circuit was reset. Utter bullshit.

Were you applying to be a barista or something? ;)

Bullet successfully dodged.

Lucky you! :)

@Nanos I think we should make a new programming language called Fifth (and oneth, twoth, threeth).

What if you're really the dumb one. I won't hire someone that'll choose python over java for developing an android app (say that was the challenge)