Re:My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable
by colllectorof on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @01:11PM
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>My mindset wasn't that they really cared that I could do these obscure programming exercises that I hadn't used once in 20+ years of real-world programming, but rather that I could prove that I could learn and adapt.
This is how bad interviewers always justify asking nonsensical questions.
It's like that old joke:
An interviewer picks up a stack of 50 resumes, takes a glance at them and drops the bottom half into a wastebasket. A coworker asks:
This is how bad interviewers always justify asking nonsensical questions.
It's like that old joke:
An interviewer picks up a stack of 50 resumes, takes a glance at them and drops the bottom half into a wastebasket. A coworker asks:
'Why did you discard those candidates?'
The interviewer replies:
'Because I hate losers.'