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Programmers of Lemmy, what are your interviewing horror stories? (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)

submitted 2 months ago by scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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What are your worst interviews you've done? I'm currently going through them myself and want to hear what others are like. Dijkstras algorithm on the whiteboard? Binary Search? My personal favorite "I don't see anything wrong with your architecture, but I'm not a fan of X language/framework so I have to call that out"

Let me hear them!

(Non programmers too please jump in with your horrid interviews, I'm just very fed up with tech screens)

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[-] Mercuri@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

lol. I kid you not, someone did that. Then completely imploded when I pointed out that it'd just print the object reference and not the list contents.

Can you start next Monday? :p

[-] zaphod@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 months ago

Now I need more details, you said they can use whatever language they want, if you do print(stringlist) in python it will print something like ["first string", "second string"] and not an object reference.

[-] Mercuri@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

The candidate said they were going to use Java. I asked them if perhaps they weren't coding in Python instead? They insisted it was Java. I forget the details but they proceeded to "fix" their code by doing some stuff that made absolutely no sense no matter what language they were using.

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Was the string list an array or something?

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