Oof, I've had that experience during a technical phone screen with a different "hires only the best" company. I was asked to write (over the phone) a trivial statistical algorithm and started to describe the algorithm: "Function F returns a double and has two parameters, pointer to the start of the double array P and integer N for length of array." Apparently on the other end of the line was a human compiler that kept rejecting my input and preferred "double F open parens double star P comma int n close parens"!

This is hilarious! Such a strong indicator that you, as a candidate, should reject the employer.

Yes, it was the final straw and led to me rejecting that industry as a whole :)

What are you doing now?

Makin' games, burnin' savings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7MXfg2wt28&list=PLqJcvcLs4C...

Hah! I love the AXBY code-entering minigame :P This is pretty neat so far.

I, too, have a side project I'd love to quit my job to work on, but I think it's less monetizable than an actual game.

Thanks! I really enjoy coming up with the themed minigames. The next one planned is a Kanban board minigame ... think of a cross between Tetris and the boardgame Patchwork.

Ha! I did that for a year...and thinking about doing it again. I mean, selling my home and moving to say, costa rica, i could stretch my dollar, dev my heart out, and watch all the sunsets my heart desires