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)

  • fubarx@lemmy.ml
    3·
    25 days ago

    “Given a list of strings, print the contents of the list to the screen.”

    print(stringlist)

    or if you want to get fancy:

    print(", ".join(stringlist))

    When do I start? I feel like I nailed it.

    /s

    • Mercuri@lemmy.world
      2·
      25 days 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
        3·
        25 days 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
          3·
          25 days 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.