The dystopian world of software engineering interviews

Re:The dystopian world of software engineering interviews by thewhitetulip on Friday February 14, 2020 @10:55PM (#22333125)

> Unearned privilege?

I agree that the interview process looks for self clones. I've been in interviews where interviewer was like "why you used Dictionary to do this? Nobody uses dict in prod code"

But unearned privilege seems a little harsh doesn't it?

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Re:The dystopian world of software engineering interviews by paganel on Saturday February 15, 2020 @11:17AM (#22336080)

Now I’m curious why they didn’t use dicts, I love dicts. I’ve been writing Python for a living for almost 15 years now and dictionaries and (reasonable) list comprehensions still attract me like they did the first day I “met” them.

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Re:The dystopian world of software engineering interviews by thewhitetulip on Sunday February 16, 2020 @09:12AM (#22341614)

I don't know. It was bizzare to hear it.

To be honest the lady taking the interview didn't understand my code, at least that's what I got. The guy with her definitely didn't understand a line I had written.

Maybe that was her way of protecting herself or something else

But I've never come across any real reason to not use dicts

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Re:The dystopian world of software engineering interviews by neilk on Friday February 14, 2020 @11:06PM (#22333177)

I took that part out. I don’t really know what is in other people’s minds.

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