Ask HN: How often at work do you use what you've been tested on in interviews?

Re:Ask HN: How often at work do you use what you've been tes... by GoForthAssemble on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @06:55PM (#21579729)

A bit sideways from topic but; I got grilled by the head of the Euro fighter project (Ford management) on the importance of using arrays for everything. Don't do 'int a;' always create an array. I was dismissed half way through for not agreeing.

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Re:Ask HN: How often at work do you use what you've been tes... by JohnFen on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @07:27PM (#21579943)

> I was dismissed half way through for not agreeing.

Even if I got an offer out of that interview, I would have turned it down. The head of the project making such a statement (in the absence of a good reason for the stance) is a big red warning flag.

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Re:Ask HN: How often at work do you use what you've been tes... by jb775 on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @07:24PM (#21579927)

What was the argument for always creating an array?

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Re:Ask HN: How often at work do you use what you've been tes... by pipingdog on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @07:41PM (#21580034)

The point of the question, I imagine (and am giving the interviewer the benefit of the doubt), was to see how the candidate negotiated technical compromises. Merely disagreeing without exploring the reasoning behind it and perhaps finding a different solution together might be a red flag for that environment.

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Re:Ask HN: How often at work do you use what you've been tes... by GoForthAssemble on Tuesday November 19, 2019 @07:59PM (#21580137)

The guys who were originally going to do the interview were in the room. Squirming. I asked if his background was APL (you know array based stuff) and was told that APL, and I shit you not, 'was not A Programming Language'.

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