Man, this reminds me of the story about the person that gets a position at a new company and it turns out they have a ridiculous tech stack where it's a custom language. The new person comes in and adds comments which breaks everything and somehow files have like a version history which affects how they run? Anyone have the link to that? There's some individual that developed all of it and gets the new person fired for breaking everything in production (because of course it all runs from head) and was portrayed very negatively.
Yes, thanks :) I thought the TLs name was Tom.
I have a hard time imagining this is real, but it makes some twisted kind of sense.
Was it a company that is in the healthcare technology space, because that sounds like something you'd find there. That or aerospace.
MUMPS?
Re:A hiring test I'd like to run
by buildawesome on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @06:00PM
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I find it disconcerting that there is a language the healthcare industry uses named MUMPS.
Very close, yes. And yes to the parent comment. ;)
This happened to me. I once interviewed at a place where they presented me with a language I had never seen. Very different concepts than your typical C/Algol flavored languages. They went over the basic concepts, with a handy reference sheet for me, then gave me a few tasks to complete in that language.
Towards the end, after completing the tasks, I congratulated them for inventing a ficticious language in order to test candidates on a more equal footing. Cute, clever, creative, even though it's probably far-removed from the real world...
Their response? Oh this is not a ficiticious language, this is what we use daily. It's our proprietary language and we're quite proud of it.
Me: ...
(I ended up getting the job and learned a lot in the domain of wheel reinvention.)