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)

  • Pudutr0n
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    64 hours ago

    If it’s not a hassle, could you explain the implications of this request to someone who only understands basic coding?

    • @acchariya
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      32 hours ago

      In addition to the excellent hotel analogy, they had a specific conceptual and technical problem, say, how to mix flour evenly into water when thickening a sauce. The challenge was to make a roux and show the steps I used to evenly mix the flour.

    • @Nibodhika
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      154 hours ago

      Imagine you’re interviewing for an Architect position at a company that’s designing a hotel, and your take home assignment is to design a hotel.

    • @[email protected]
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      114 hours ago

      They were trying to get them to solve a real world problem for free under the guise of an interview (made up) problem.

      • Pudutr0n
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        44 hours ago

        Hahaha. Oh, small business owners… smh Thank you!

        • @acchariya
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          22 hours ago

          It was a realreal medium sized start up ;-)