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Re:Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software s... by pmiller2 on Thursday July 16, 2020 @01:33PM (#23861411)
Oh, was that their logic? I don’t even recall if they actually interviewed me, despite passing their challenge. As I recall, I was rejected for not enough experience.
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Re:Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software s... by thaumasiotes on Thursday July 16, 2020 @04:07PM (#23863278)
I find that hard to believe, since I was hired despite experience totalling less than a year of internship.

However, there might have been external reasons. I was hired after they were acquired by eBay, and apparently they had preexisting approval for a certain number of hires that year that they didn't end up meeting. If you were earlier or later (pretty likely!), maybe they might not have been so cavalier.

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Re:Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software s... by pmiller2 on Sunday July 19, 2020 @12:18AM (#23886969)
That could be. I could also be misremembering. In any case, I definitely wasn’t offered a job, despite solving the problem in exactly the same way you did.

I’m not complaining. Who knows? Getting rejected might have been for the best.

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