Update - The call finally finished at 10:05pm and now we're 'expected' to be on a call for 9am.

They then further went on to say that as this is urgent, after the call they were going to call the devops guy on his mobile, and ask him to deploy both tonight as well as tomorrow morning 'before he starts his 1 hour commute to the office'.

Are you fucking serious? In what world do these psychotic fuckwads think this kind of behavior is okay?

Controversial opinion:

Angular is the best, easiest, and most structured/bomb proof.

Vue is after because it follows a lot of what Angular does/is.

React is.. well I'm not a fan of JSX, and I dislike the lack of the separation of concern, and the lack of structure. Oh also the fact that 10 different React Devs do React 10 different ways. Oh and large companies add React into their big monolithic project just to update the header and footer into react. I only know a bit of React because everyone uses it.

Are you under the age of 35?

You don't need a degree to code. Also not everyone is as perfect as you want them to be. Maybe try and help the guy out of offer pair programming?

@jennytengsonM the only CI is the build process and that's it.

Today was my last day.. since writing this rant I found a new contract, handed my notice in.. now I start my new job on Monday. Woop!

As an ex recruiter, I can confirm that you receive zero training or even basic understanding in the skills you're hiring for. You get told to match keywords to keywords.

Source:

Reed Technology Senior Consultant as well as 4 other companies over 5 years.

@alexbrooklyn literally everything. Plugins and all lol

Best fix I discovered for this was to do everrrrrrrything custom... and then render the entire thing as an image. Fuck you email clients.

@Sleepy-guy messenger app is WebEx Teams, keyboard is Gboard

Folks, after reading what I wrote, I handed my notice in after 1 hour. I'm not chilling at home on garden leave for 1 month which gives me time to find my next role.

Win.

@devrocket I was a recruiter for 4 years. This method of obtaining work is pathetic and lazy. He's asking for every company I'm interviewing with just so he can then contact that company and attempt to send more CVs to it, and therefore reducing the chance of me getting that job.

I've had managers ask me to do this when I was a recruiter and I flat out refused. There are 200 different/better ways to get roles/leads as a recruiter. This guy didn't even attempt to hide what he was looking for.

@pihu Well it says on freecodecamp how much each language will take to learn including the test projects.

Start with HTML, CSS, and then JavaScript via https://freecodecamp.org.

Just follow the curriculum on there and after a few months you'll be up to scratch in no time.

This is normal to be stressed and confused - everyone goes through this.

Good luck!