Just had the shittiest job interview ever. Had to do two tests. And since i was nervous as fuck and can't do proper JS i obviously failed!

It is good to get interview experience. You will be calmer on future interview tests. Good luck!

I can make stuff. I just made an application for a module at uni. Language and type of application I'd never touched before.

I wrote in 6 weeks a mammoth ambitious project using classes, 2D arrays and other sort of complicated things, for which I received a perfect 100% and was told the lecturer could not even see a way to improve my code. The highest anyone has ever gotten. The module even had a 12% fail rate.

Went to an interview a few weeks ago. Could not even write a class with getters and setters in PHP. Didn't get the job.

Dafuq

Why are people nervous in interviews? Worst case: You don't have a job and afterwards you STILL don't have a job. You see, nothing changes is the worst possible result that can happen. Just try to have fun, puzzle on the challenges and maybe learn something new. You are the shit, so it's their problem if they let such a valuable resource go.

@Godisalie its not always true when you're out of a job and need to pay bills. But still, yes that attitude is very effective.

@Godisalie im afraid of failure basically. What triggered me was that the interviewer had a masters degree and doctorate etc. So basically really really qualified guy who gave up a job at Microsoft.
Told me he learned JS in one week. Kinda puts him on a pedestal for me.

@daredevil Don't do that. I've met enough PhDs that were to stupid to tie their shoes to make a football team out of them.
If he expects you to learn a language you have no experience with in a week, I see 3 options : First, he set you up to fail. You can judge someone easier by the way he handles failure than by success and frustration tolerance is a necessity in this line of work. Second, he is really smart and never understood that some people can't master a new language in a few days. Those people are incredibly hard to work with and believe me, in that case you've got lucky. Third, he knows nothing. Wrote his PhD in something so theoretical that four people in this world would understand it and only his mother would pretend to read beyond the abstract, hasn't written more than three consecutive lines of code since his bachelors and just doesn't understand if what he asks is hard or not because he spent the last years managing instead of doing. BTW, I'd bet on option 1.

@Godisalie no i bet it was me :). But yeah i can get easily frustrated.
I asked how long i got for the assignments: 15m. And couldnt use wifi. After 5m of sweating i gave up. The assignments where even under the minimal requirements of what was required on the job.

Btw after this interview i had a second one that did went fairly well!

@daredevil Well, whats the problem then? You tried, you failed, you succeeded, they took someone else. To quote a great African philosopher : "It means no worries to the end of your days, it's our problem free philosophy. Hakuna Matata. " just chill, they still have to invent the problem that gets less problematic by worrying about it. Failure is nothing to be afraid of, it's one of two options that result from trying and well, there will always be guys better than you. Live is probability, and probability is a bell curve. Sometimes you hit right, sometimes left and the sad truth, the things you can do are fairly limited. Just take the experience and leave with a smile on your lips.

@Godisalie What a fantastic outlook! Can you be my new psychologist? :D

That's okay, I was on medication during one and it caused a panic attack 1/3 the way thru