who could have seen this coming, other than everyone who told the homebrew tree inverter guy this was a bad idea they absolutely shouldn’t do

  • Sailor Sega Saturn@awful.systems
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    7 months ago

    Oh yeah I’ve had the misfortune of giving hundreds of interviews – mostly programming interviews, but also talking interviews which I consider vastly superior. As well as being on the receiving end of a few.

    I’ve definitely had people do poorly under pressure before. This can be over-complicating the problem, clamming up (surprisingly common), or simply getting too worked up by the interview setting. I hate that because I often think they could have met my rubric in a more relaxed environment.

    I’ve also been on the receiving end of bad interviewers. Don’t get me started on HP asking me to implement offsetof in C++… n.b. implementing offsetof in C++ w/o undefined behavior is impossible it has to be a compiler builtin.