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@Eklavya haha! No. I am angry mostly when I start ranting though. I mean, aren't we all angry when we start to rant about something?
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Technical interviews are crap.
You have to be lucky to know the questions to fit time limits.
They are actually 2 types.
Memory oriented - what is X ? - those are crap in general
Task oriented - you have to know how to implement specific algorithm or be lucky to be interviewed by person who can help you.
It’s like giving random equations to mathematics professor and asking him to solve it in 1 hour and call him stupid if he doesn’t make it.
In general:
Ok so you say you’re professor so I ask you this to humiliate you. -
I just had 9 interviews in 2 weeks. They gave me some of these kind of "one hour" assignment.
I felt very bad because I spent actually 20 hours straight for each of them. But I made it. I built an Dockerized app with mongodb, and angular. I switched angular with react and I made another one. I added a backend rest API in flask. I added the deployment on kubernetes. I switched API to typescript and db to MySQL. I had to scramble things to add authentication and rewrite unit tests to mock the fucking OAuth.
I had coding interview live in java without code assists from IDE.
I had to implement tree navigation algorithm in javascript.
I had to answer 60 java questions in 20 minutes.
I had to implement 5 java patterns with at least 10 unit test per pattern in one hour.
I passed 80% of them. I prefer assignment on my term, rather than quizzes or live coding.
I'm exhausted.
I think I want to get a job, no matter which one, so I can work less.
Ah, and FUCK YOU all, moron interviewers. -
@vane I am convinced most interviewers are simply not even fit to answer their own retarded questions.
Bro if you are going to ask me how to design the full high level design of the embedded system running in a airplane on a white board in 30 minutes and expect me to deliver a good design without asking any questions for the full interview, I will assume this is a normal practice at this company and you guys are building shitty systems.
Especially if I am being interviewed for an entry job. Wtf is wrong with some engineers?
I made myself sure to not do this when interviewing people and to actually prepare the freaking thing. -
@PepeTheFrog Most interviews are run by morons cause real developers are busy working their ass to support products those morons fucked up.
As a result we got more and more morons with big egos, over engineered products, most popular libraries that look like short term hacks and rotten community.
In corporations it’s pure hell.
Nobody would say to client and boss that react is crap cause react give job. Nobody would say to manager that fuck this code, either we write it good way or fuck off cause he would be fired for creating toxic work environment.
Decisions about architecture are mostly made by people who don’t do the work.
Decisions about design are mostly made by people who don’t use products.
With agile those all decisions are random and looks like randomness of decisions is actually better than human driven organization.
System in big companies is broken starting from the top ending on the people who chose those lucky bastards who get the job ( some people chose people who they would like to potentially fuck during work breaks, technical people chose people who can’t outsmart them but are also not same morons as them ).
Best way is to get independent but you need some kind of idea, money and time, cause commission clients behave same like hiring people.
Another way is go to github find a project with lots of corporate usage statistics and start committing there.
You want a standard job? Just be patient, go to interviews every day and don’t give a fuck when you won’t get the job.
You usually don’t marry first woman who gives you blow job don’t you ?
They don’t want you ? Fuck them. -
@angrydev2357 I mean, it’s called DevRant for a reason, so no shame.
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@PepeTheFrog if you cannot ask any questions than ironically you can only design one thing: the black box. As it is the same in any aircraft.
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@hjk101 with the experience I have now, I think I would question the assignment and if I find the answer is not good enough, I would just leave
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@vane also the exams are unfair, I was thinking that the exam was the metric for the skills being used by no it's very far from the real deal
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@vane In these cases I always remind my favorite scene from one of my favorite movies..."You are part of a league of morons...
You are one of the morons I've been fighting
all my life..."
Burn after reading...John Malkovich...
https://youtube.com/watch/...
when your code is a mess but everything work out in the end
When you keep getting +1s on a rant you posted a month ago.
Go big or go home.
Story of my life when I am really interested in a company:
Company: let's have a call to get to know each other.
Me: okay.
Company during the call: takes a technical interview
Company *a few days later*: now let's have a technical call!
Me: okay
Company during call: asks to design GOOGLE in GOOGLE DOC (??!!?!)
Company *a few days later*: now let's have a Development Test!
Me: okay
Company *sends an email* asking to complete a task which should take a week to develop in a few hours
Me: okay...
Company *a few weeks later*: Sends a generic email saying they got another person who is a better fit.
Me: ffs..
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