I FUCKING HATE CODE INTERVIEWS

Is there something in programming that makes its practitioners derive some sort of twisted pleasure by making fellow engineers go through inane m bullshit when interviewing for a job? Is it one of those cases of "I had to do all of this dumb shit and so will you" boomer mentality?

@oiledwheels I dunno, it's similar to liking trivia? Some little bits are fun, but for the most part useless.

I for one like them. Esp when they ask me for the most efficient algo and I come up with an even more efficient that they had in mind :)

Just apply at smaller companies. They don't have a separate HR department that has nothing else to do than tormenting candidates.

@oiledwheels yeah, as long as they are practical. But I saw a bunch today that are just like "write this function, in a weird way that you would never write in production code."

And i'm just like, no, i don't think this way nor would any of my work get so fucked up that i would have to write code this way.

@oiledwheels omg this is the first time i hear this , made my night 🤣🤣

Same here I prefer take home exercise if they need to see some code as I'm not really that active on Github to show any sample code ...

@gitpush true, same page here. For a short periode of months I actually was the one that took interviews, to search for web developer (the company never had this position ever) and I was needed to help because they didn't know what questions to ask.
Long story short, they didn't like the fact that my interviews were more based on how the person thinks ( no tests, no homework) just a free brainstorming session on basic stuff that they should know and the fact that I wasted time to explain the correct answer when the candidate didn't know or was wrong 🤣🤣🤣.
But with this approach I got 2 great colleagues that do amazing job.

@StefansWorld94 lol that was awkward and fun at the same time

they are useful

you will know in moment do you need this shitty job

Do what I do: Solve the algo, they are bullshit, don't get me wrong, I agree with you. Then tell them that you are not interested in working with them since the assignment at hand had little to 0 in terms of what your day to day will be.

I would do that from time to time(I am always busy) and if I do humor them with an interview I will reject their offers because I am not interested in companies that ask me bullshit interview questions without the ability to search: documentation, examples.

No, I will not memorize how to do graph traversal on whatever bullshit you want, I will, however understand the idea. I will also not advance through l33tcode bullshit, it is absolutely 100-fucking-% useless to me and I have YET to find an appropriate use for most of the things that DS and A teach on the level of real world

@oiledwheels I will be the ceiling... So I can look down on that question.