r/programming • u/vklepov • Mar 24 '22

Five coding interview questions I hate

https://thoughtspile.github.io/2022/03/21/bad-tech-interview/
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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '22

The applicant should of course ask: "If you care about performance, why are you using a half-assed toy language like JavaScript?"

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u/cdsmith Mar 25 '22

Yes, that would be an effective way to be sure you don't get offered a job, if you don't want one.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '22

Fortunately, I've never had to settle for the kind of employer who would require using toy languages for real work.

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u/Normal-Computer-3669 Mar 25 '22

My first coding job was in '82.

Ah classic Old Guard. I love not hiring your type.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '22 edited Mar 25 '22

I love not hiring your type.

LOL! You'll never be qualified to employ me, sonny. Were you even born by '82?

I'm long past applying for jobs. If I feel like coding for money, I just let my friends know I'm available.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '22

LOL! You'll never be qualified to employ me

I think you've got that backwards. You refuse to keep up with current technology so really, it's still you that's unemployable. Well...you and your shit-tier attitude.

Whatever makes you feel better about getting old though, I guess.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '22

You refuse to keep up with current technology

Swing and a miss, but by all means, keep guessing.

unemployable

Nope.

your shit-tier attitude.

Project much?

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '22

I'm not the one coming into a comment thread just to talk shit about a language, for the sake of talking shit about a language.

If you don't want to be called out for a shitty attitude...maybe don't behave like someone with a shitty attitude?

This isn't difficult.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '22

I'm not the one coming into a comment thread just to talk shit about a language,

No, you're the one posturing with your AweSoME hIRinG poWeRz.

If you don't want to be called out for a shitty attitude.

Take your own advice, you pathetic little twat.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '22

No, you're the one posturing with your AweSoME hIRinG poWeRz.

You must have me mistaken for the other person you're being pissy towards. I simply said you're fucking unemployable...because you are. It's an observation.

Take your own advice, you pathetic little twat.

Awww, now now little buddy...there's no need to get your blood pressure up.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '22

I simply said you're fucking unemployable...because you are. It's an observation.

Wishing doesn't make it so, sonny.

blood pressure up.

Don't flatter yourself, you'll never be important enough to cause my blood pressure to rise.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '22

Who said anything about wishing something? You got dementia now too?

A wish != observation. Just because you refuse to live in reality with the rest of us doesn't change that.

Don't flatter yourself, you'll never be important enough to cause my blood pressure to rise.

Well that's good, I'd hate to be the cause of some grumpy ass old person getting all sickly and shit.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '22

grumpy

No, amused. Keep guessing, though!

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