Re:Ask HN: What to do about ‘Good at programming Bad at Leet...
by linuxorbust on Friday May 20, 2022 @02:53PM
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Not a programmer, but a sysadmin/devops. Once had an interview at about my 15-year mark as a Linux/Unix admin working for some household names. Punk kid interviewer asks me if I know how to add a user to a Linux server via command line and, if so, please take the marker and write the command on the whiteboard. Same kid asked me why I would choose Bash over the far superior zsh and other nonsense. Kid didn't, likely still doesn't, understand that methods don't often matter, results do. Needless to say, I didn't want the job working with people like him. I found a better job working for a government contractor doing more interesting stuff working for people who just wanted results, methods not even a consideration.
i take this as an insult and reject instantly
no matter how much money and stock you offer, i'm not gonna bend my back over to prove anything to you (that's what resume and GitHub are for, fool)
luckily, i have saved enough money to not care about this shit