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)

  • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    Unprompted, they all commented that “yeah, this is a start-up so we’re expected to work 80 hour weeks. That’s just how it is.”

    lol I’m walking out the minute they say that.

      • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
        6·
        5 days ago

        I’m genuinely terrible at not falling for sunk costs and have a bad habit of just letting inertia take me.

        But unless you’re offering me 100k a week (in which case I’ll work for maybe a month before burning out), I’m not working a fucking 80 hour week.

      • Mercuri@lemmy.world
        4·
        5 days ago

        At the time it was like watching a train wreck. This was much earlier in my career and I was like, “there’s just no way, right?”

        I did get lunch out of it.