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Re:I've been a software engineer for 10 years and I can't do... by dpark on Monday March 06, 2017 @01:32PM (#13804860)
> while I peck at my smartphone and sigh every time you pause

This is a much bigger deal to me than difficult algorithm questions. Shitty interviewers give shitty interviews, regardless of what kinds of questions they ask.

The worst interview I ever had was like this. The guy showed up late, told me he forgot he even had an interview, gave me a strange question with little detail, and told me to start coding. Then ignored me for an hour while he typed on his laptop. Even when I directly asked for feedback to make sure I was solving the problem he asked and not a misunderstanding, he gave me basically no feedback. I've had interviews that I bombed before, but this was the first and only time that I felt like I bombed an interview and it was utterly not my fault. It was also the only time I've had a bad interview that actually ruined the rest of the day for me because it threw me off so much.

Re:I've been a software engineer for 10 years and I can't do... by tonyedgecombe on Monday March 06, 2017 @02:19PM (#13805228)
I think I would just walk out at that, at the end of the day this is someone you are going to have to work with or for.
Re:I've been a software engineer for 10 years and I can't do... by dpark on Monday March 06, 2017 @03:24PM (#13805763)
I wish I had. If something like that ever happens again, I will.