sounds like a really nice interview process you have. these guys really put “rockstar” on their resume? what the fuck |
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Yes, they put “rockstar” on their resume and that’s not an immediate red flag to HR. |
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the trick is never taking anyone seriously |
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I’ve completely detached from it at this point, after that shitshow of an interview. I’ve got another one tomorrow and I think I’ll just drink enough ‘fe so I can block it out of my mind. |
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all of the rockstar developers I know have imposter syndrome instead of dunning krueger |
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HR moved it right up against my lunch break, so I guess I’m taking a half hour for lunch then. Fucking HR pricks. |
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Maybe this interview won’t be so bad - it’s someone fresh out of college with no prior work experience and they even wrote a formal cover letter. |
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grill them on zoomer memes |
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They graduated toward the top of their class from their university and rated themselves a four out of five in their Java experience (where one is “wrote a few programs in it” and five is “can give a big conference talk about it”), but couldn’t tell us the difference between an array, They had heard of a This is a graduate of a four year university computer science program and they don’t know what a We asked them to do an exercise with key/value pairs and they implemented it in Java with a linear search through parallel arrays. They rated themselves highly in Python as well. I wonder if they ever used a Python They nailed the troubleshooting task though. ❧ Edited by MasterOfMagic at 2022-03-10 00:35:362022-03-10 00:35 |
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python my dict |
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are they not working summer jobs/internships? |
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They listed no professional programming experience - no internships, research experience, or summer jobs. They said they were looking for a job while they got their masters. The only other job they listed on their resume was at a factory. |
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This is the most junior software engineer position we have that isn’t an internship, and it is entry level. |
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do kids even know what phreaking was anymore |
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Blue boxing but it’s the blue Among Us character throwing switches in Electrical |
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man what the fuck |
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They were the first candidate I’ve interviewed for these positions to send me a personal thank you note to my public work email address. It didn’t help their evaluation, but it was nice. |
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