"Introductions and a bit of smalltalk" - I would shit myself if an interviewer started asking about smalltalk... /s
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The fuck kind of programming language is "smalltalk"?
It inspired python's syntax iirc
I write a lot of PHP for part of my job.
The beauty of PHP is that for any given task, there are always multiple ways to do it, all of which are wrong.
This actually gives me so,e confidence in my programming skill level.
I was thinking the same thing. I mean, I just did a coding test for a potential job, and I know I did at least as good as, and likely better than this.
edit: just to prove to myself, I went ahead and wrote the program without looking things up. I'm self-taught so I feel pretty proud. It took about 25 mins, and it works!
great and hilarious post, but isn't this programming_horror instead of a linuxmemes
As someone who teachers high school freshmen computer science this pains me as most of my freshmen could do all of these.
Still in university, never did an interview. Is that seriously the avarage difficulty of interview questions?
This is on the easier end of the scale to be sure, but as someone who's interviewed candidates with similar questions, it eliminates a surprising number of people...
My theory is that modern coding bootcamps stuff their students full of buzzwords instead of letting them learn the basics
I find the experience of the applicants to be hilarious lies.
Which shouldn't be surprising. The company I was interviewing at only feed me the top ~1% of CVs to interview... Of course half of them were stuffed with bullshit
Yeah, this is the problem. Someone who has legitimately built a basic application or website from scratch may know everything you need, but HR will filter it out.
They don't really understand what they are looking for, so someone who says they are an AI Researcher with 8 years of experience in the language "Zendaya" and work experience at five moon rocket startups will be at the top of the pile.
Companies need to beef up their training programs so they can literally take in whoever and teach them what they need to know. Forget trying to get the top people. Just take the first 20 who can make it through an interview without drooling on the floor. You will probably get at least 9 ok developers and 1 good one.
When I interview people, I don't care how they get an answer, I want to see that they can get to the answer, ideally the correct one, but it doesn't matter if it's wrong. I want them to show me their problem solving skills and that they understand their own solution.
If you can read existing code and understand complexities you are already better than 80% of these hires.
That's like stage one where you filter out the obviously incompetent ones.
You wouldn't believe how many candidates with years of experience can't figure out those simple problems. Or even the super well known fizzbuzz.
It's insane, people will claim like 2-3 years of experience with Ansible, they can't even get a file copied. Couple years of Python, they don't understand async, generators and other pretty basic features.
People have always been lying a bit about their experience but it's getting way, way out of control.
Knowing specific features of a language is one thing, but not being able to even pseudocode a FizzBuzz shows they lack the basic logical problem solving ability that programmers need.
You might get something harder after that. But there's a reason one of the most common code interview questions is FizzBuzz. There's a shocking number of applicants that can't do it.
Not one person in the comments has attempted to answer any of the questions either.
for(var i=0;i<=100;i++){ if((i%2)==1) console.log(i); }
btw % is the modulo operator, x%y returns the remainder of division of x by y
Haha good try. Hope your interview goes well
for (i%1=0; i+2; int) odd++; cout(3)
This is a little different than the in person "draw me a solution on the whiteboard" approach
Are remote interviews still viable in the days of gpt?
in the company, i'm employed in, yes. it allows to hire people far off for remote work.
Clearly yes, as this post outlines, these candidates weren't smart enough to use ChatGPT
The last interviews I wrote the job posting for and conducted, I made it clear we give you a GPT4 subscription for the job so I expect you to demonstrate your ability to use it as a tool during the interview