The guy that knows his stuff [OC]

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jamcdonald120@reddit

and this is why interviews have coding problems for you to solve, even if they arent very much like the real job

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dota2nub@reddit

I completely fucked up on my coding assessment. They liked how I reacted to their feedback though and hired me.

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NumberNinethousand@reddit

\[Jen's job interview in The IT Crowd\](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5NANrVnqLc).

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dnewfm@reddit

I came here to quote this; the video is obviously better. WHAT DOES IT STAND FOR?!

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originalbrowncoat@reddit

I have it on good authority that if you type Google into Google you will BREAK THE INTERNET

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fanta_bhelpuri@reddit

Are you familiar with Lua? (Is this some sort of ligma joke?)

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terkke@reddit

extra funny in portuguese or spanish cause Lua means Moon "oh yeah, I happen to be familiar with Lua for as long as I can remember"

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SushiWithoutSushi@reddit

I don't know in Portuguese but in Spanish the word for moon is luna, with an n in the middle.

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kodman7@reddit

Are you willing to take ligma in lua a salary?

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sampete1@reddit

How much do you know about Figma?

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Striking_Word167@reddit

You familiar with python? Well I do love snakes....

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DarkKechup@reddit

Did you, by chance, marry my ex? The description in this comment is uncannily simmilar.

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FrankHightower@reddit

found the furry, I mean the scaley

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johnnydm8@reddit

found the furry, I mean the rodent

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madmoose@reddit

It's a badger, badger, badger, badger Bbadger, badger, badger, badger, badger, badger

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ColonelRuff@reddit

My ex loves snakes. She takes care of anyone's snake for free.

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PolyglotTV@reddit

Everyone knows Python. And then you ask them to do something more complicated than call a few functions at global scope and they lose their mind.

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HomerHash@reddit

Thank goodness I watched that snake documentary last week

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LanfearSedai@reddit

Python? I’d be willing to show you my anaconda if I get this job.

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Yinci@reddit

You think you can work with C#? _See sharp? Can't he see I'm not wearing glasses? I see sharper than most people!_ Yeah I'm sure I can do that!

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HackerDaGreat57@reddit

Ahha, so we're going to be working with FPGAs as well?

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yonatan8070@reddit

Segmentation fault (core dumped)

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TactlessTortoise@reddit

Take a dump? Yeah I can do that!

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PioneerSpecies@reddit

Well I could find it on a piano, sure

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MineralLesbian@reddit

Sure, I can work with C#! Half steps are my favorite, they make for some really vibrant chord progressions.

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The pound sign (#) is musical notation for a "sharp" note, they are the black keys on a piano. It's a matter of preference, but I really enjoy the musical chords they produce, as they produce a particular sound that you don't get from natural notes (the white keys).

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Lonttu@reddit

Oh i know. It's just that we're hiring programmers, not musicians.

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PUTINS_PORN_ACCOUNT@reddit

There is a surprising overlap between the two communities

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wackywavingarmgumby@reddit

Fun fact: it's sometimes called an octothorpe. Plus the musical sharp sign is technically a different symbol (♯) but isn't available on a typical keyboard so the regular symbol (#) is used instead when typing.

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MineralLesbian@reddit

[You are technically correct, the best kind of correct!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hou0lU8WMgo) I was on mobile at the time and decided not to bother with it. Thank you for adding it on, and also for the fun fact!

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hsvoma2112@reddit

C#? I haven't tuned any lower than Drop D before but if i have thicker gauge strings i can do it Sure I can work with C# .

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waloz1212@reddit

C#? Yes, I know D Major scale thank you.

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Lakiw@reddit

I'm sure you're familiar with a SQL server. Oh yeah, definitely *I was a busboy for Applebees, I should be able to do the sequel.*

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Competitive_Joke_966@reddit

Oh I think there was a guy called Sey Sharp at the last place I interviewed at too!

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Middle_Wolverine_851@reddit

Well I'll be damned, someone beat me to the punch.

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CrunchyAl@reddit

Can you work with Java? *Who wouldn't? Sounds nice to work with a cup of coffee.* Of course. Sounds great.

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Desperate-Weight9433@reddit

Yeah, good, welcome to the team.

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cho_uc@reddit

If only SW interview is as easy as this ... 😮‍💨

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juggling-monkey@reddit

In my experience, it's either like this, or they ask you to rebuild a full self driving system for a vehicle... But have it work within a web browser. There is no in between.

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MentionAdventurous@reddit

I had to write breadth first search in Google Docs. Like… wut? I have been out of school for almost 8 years and no IDE? Was told it didn’t need to be syntactically perfect and then got called out because I forgot to put a semi-colon.

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hellscaper@reddit

Please name and shame because that place needs to be avoided if that's how they're hiring anybody

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MentionAdventurous@reddit

I mean, I was able to do Breadth First Search (even if I said I’d use the one built into Java) by hand because I prepared. The Google Doc part was utterly stupid though. I will say they are a midsize household company name. I won’t call out companies as I don’t like to burn bridges, nor want to say they haven’t changed from using Google Docs. I did tell them that was utterly ridiculous that they did that and they should really reflect upon why they have people coding in Google Docs. Hopefully, they have changed.

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hellscaper@reddit

I should have clarified, the Google doc is what sounded ridiculous. I've done bfs/dfs, it sucks but it happens.

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MentionAdventurous@reddit

That’s fair. But I think it’s ridiculous to actually have someone try to write an algorithm from memory vs. knowing the tools you have at hand and knowing when to use them. Because let’s be honest, an open source BFS/DFS is going to be optimized better.

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UTS15@reddit

My last interview, the hardest question I got was, “Do you know what polyfills are?” Then I received a very generous offer.

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TeaKingMac@reddit

Depends on who you work for. The downside is that if the interview is this easy, you're going to have no one to rely on for training or support and you're going to sink or swim very quickly.

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Tavapris04@reddit

Meme is prob 20 years old

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maitreg@reddit

Everyone's qualified for F#

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shodanbo@reddit

Hey, I just interviewed at Game Bear they said they use Lua? I love Hawaiian Luau's!

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FatiTankEris@reddit

What's your knowledge of the C? (I don't remember all the plates and marine stuff from geography...)

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ploud1@reddit

Every recruiter on Linkedin be like...

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Boopcheese@reddit

RIP to the senior software engineer my company just let go. He knew next to nothing and did this.

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ScrimpyCat@reddit

So you’re saying that a position just opened up for a senior that knows next to nothing. Where do I apply?

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Boopcheese@reddit

My boss sounded defeated when he announced that hiring will now include coding aptitude tests

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the-cafinated-tiger@reddit

Until they find out neither knows C++ but just keep babbling Javascript to hide it.

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JoyJoy_@reddit

This sounds like a nightmare. A full desktop game written in Electron.

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you_os@reddit

Him : I can c

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sanddigger02@reddit

Are you familiar with Java? I mean... I've played Minecraft before, yes...

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gogocrazycocoa_@reddit

I was like that for a while LMAO

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joxmaskin@reddit

Yes, I know my geography.

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R3D3-1@reddit

Sure, Java beans are great for getting started in the morning.

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KobaruTheKame@reddit

More like (well I like more kilimanjaro but Java is not that bad for a cofee, wait I'm supposed to supply it?)

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Gamerindreams@reddit

since he's old school and knows basic, he must be a shoo in for a senior developer position recruiters, amirite ?

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magicmulder@reddit

What do you mean, “pee, aged pee”, you weirdo?!

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elongio@reddit

This is freaking hilarious.

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Iivaitte@reddit

and then for the next 6 months all they were assigned to do was fix spelling errors.

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diox8tony@reddit

How did you get this recording of my boss hiring my co workers?

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Conseqdbh@reddit

I mean... I've played Minecraft before, yes...

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Vanflicke@reddit

Are you familiar with Go? Well, it’s difficult at first but as they always say, it’s easier the more you play it. What? It’s all black and white, am I right? Yeah, good, welcome to the team. <guess I’ll hit that game store on the way home and brush up on it>

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Conseqdbh@reddit

I should have lied more lol.

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Fluiddgbh@reddit

I have decent experience with working with rust.

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bexter2020@reddit

Employer: Are you familiar with Rust? Employee: Yes, I have decent experience with working with rust( My moms cleaning lessons are gonna come in handy… I got this)

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leo_rivas@reddit (OP)

Love it! That’s a good one!!🤣

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Fluiddgbh@reddit

10/10

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Markcelzin@reddit

I would appreciate a joke about r/playrust

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MineralLesbian@reddit

We've gotta make something superior to Rust to make it go away. A new version of C, perhaps, and we can call it H**C**l.

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maximdoge@reddit

Not related to C but [HCL](https://github.com/hashicorp/hcl) .

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MineralLesbian@reddit

Well I'll be damned, someone beat me to the punch. Clearly they *also* have a vendetta against Rust /s

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Illustrious-Scar-526@reddit

These memes have convinced me that I should have lied more lol

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Niel15@reddit

I would love an interview where they only ask you if you're good with *insert programming language*, then hire you on the spot.

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wagedomain@reddit

This feels sometimes like how other people are hired. But it always seems when I go to interviews it's like "here's a full feature we want you to build from scratch without an IDE, without looking anything up, and without relying on libraries. Write it by hand, it should take you about 6-8 weeks and we'll be changing the requirements as we go to see if you're paying attention also do you have references?"

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Willgetyoukilled@reddit

I wish it was this easy.

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bananakiwi12345@reddit

I love this!

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-spookygoopy-@reddit

"You like Java at all?" "I'd love a cup, extra cream and sugar! Thanks!"

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ghua@reddit

Hmmm Is C++ simply D? 🤔

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kessy628@reddit

Are you familiar with Ruby? (Well personally my birth stone is amethyst but I guess rubies are cool too) Sure, I know all kinds of things like ruby

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myrsnipe@reddit

> Can you read lisp? >(It must be be a bad lisp if I need to read lips)

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lambdaCrab@reddit

Ya I love lithp!

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lambdaCrab@reddit

If they just bear with her she should be fine

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FALCUNPAWNCH@reddit

I wish it was that easy. At one of my recent interviews the lead engineer asked me about an obscure language feature that I'd never heard of from a language I'd been professionally using for the last few years and rejected me seemingly based on that.

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janyk@reddit

I remember when I was first asked the Java question: What is the difference between a **StringBuffer** and a **StringBuilder**? I didn't know, despite having programmed in Java for 10 years at the time. And for good reason - **StringBuffer** had essentially been deprecated in favour of **StringBuilder** since before I started my career. I never would have, nor *should have* seen code that used **StringBuffer** if my coworkers were competent and up-to-date. For those curious, the answer is that **StringBuffer** is thread-safe whereas **StringBuilder** is not. They have the same interface and functionality otherwise, and, in fact, **StringBuilder** was designed to be a drop-in replacement.

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FALCUNPAWNCH@reddit

I've told myself that I wouldn't want to work under someone who asks such stupid questions. And my search for gainful employment in this terrible market continues.

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janyk@reddit

Yeah, but is there anyone else??

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FALCUNPAWNCH@reddit

There are definitely companies with non-absurd interview processes. All my friends who got laid off last year found jobs at places that didn't ask stupid questions. I even failed a few interviews this year that did ask the right questions, I just wasn't prepared for them or wasn't selected for other unknown reasons. Still that was last year when it was easier than ever to get hired and now it's this year when it's not. Good news is that companies seem to be getting more responsive and there's been an uptick of recruiters in my inbox, so I'm trying to keep positive.

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EP1Cdisast3r@reddit

Rejecting someone based on an obscure question they can easily google in practice seems like bad interviewing to my eyes

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janyk@reddit

Lol, welcome to software engineer interviews for the past 10 years (at least).

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FALCUNPAWNCH@reddit

Many software engineers suck at interviewing. Algorithmic leet code and obscure or opinionated coding or language questions are terrible ways to figure out if a candidate is a good programmer. I hate leet code with a passion. When I was conducting interviews for my last job we used hackerrank questions that were similar to our real world work situations and asked about their experiences.

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UglierThanMoe@reddit

Game Bear then went on to become infamous for releasing several console ports for PC.

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Realinternetpoints@reddit

What is your experience with TypeScript? *well I’ve never written one but I did do theater in high school*

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Zweihunde_Dev@reddit

In my experience, this is absolutely how at least half of my co-workers got their jobs.

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difficultrealname@reddit

Employer: do you think you can handle JavaScript. *I can sure script well in Java* Employee: yeah, sure. I am familiar with it.

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Stunning_Ride_220@reddit

Things gonna get interesting as soon as for tran gets involved.

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Oxey405@reddit

Go follow him on Twitter he has like 9 subs : https://twitter.com/dummy_bearz

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bedrooms-ds@reddit

Have you been into Julia recently?

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InsertCoinForCredit@reddit

I like Ada more, really classy.

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R3D3-1@reddit

No, Tom would kill me if I tried.

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Mysterious-Let5891@reddit

Are you familiar with PHP? No, no, I’m not into drug use.

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kopasz7@reddit

(Is that what they do on the streets instead of PCP?)

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NGGJamie@reddit

Maybe his interview was a breeze because his jacket says wind.

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DeviousBeevious@reddit

this isn't as funny as it probably should be.

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No_Vegetable_8945@reddit

Senior dev gonna have a hard time

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harbac@reddit

“Man. I push buttons, I turn dials, I read numbers. Sometimes I make up little stories in my head about what the numbers mean. Like one time I imagined they were a code to get into a vault full of naked women. Man, how cool would that be? They asked me how well I understood theoretical physics. I told them I had a theoretical degree in physics. They said welcome aboard. I know exactly what I'm doing, I just don't know what effect it's going to have. That console over there controls the main power grid, that button there makes a crazy noise, and if you put stuff in that slot sparks come out.”

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Neutraali@reddit

This was the nineties IT scene. Your only requirement was a pulse.

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CMDR_Sunless@reddit

Just wait till you meet the new guy. He’s a ROCKSTAR

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Tough_Patient@reddit

I wish. My experience was "hah! You don't even know how to solve a statistical probability map using a hash tree!"

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GamesRevolution@reddit

He **bear**ly got by the interview

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drkrelic@reddit

"How about Python?" *Well I did own a Ball Python for several years...* "Oh for sure!"

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Jasinto-Leite@reddit

Can you work with Intellij IDEA? Well, I have some idea and I think it's some are intelligent

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jordan_h_@reddit

The new hire is a bug bear

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MineralLesbian@reddit

Damn, I didn't know that the first cave in the *Lost Mine Of Phandelver* campaign was an aspiring IT department.

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OwnZookeepergame6413@reddit

Basic Is funny, was so good at it my teacher for the project gave me a commendation because he was struggling (was a du subject about science all around. So it’s not necessarily done by a programming teacher).

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Remy-the-Rancher@reddit

That's why ask them to do ~~fizzbuzz~~ fuzzbear.

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xXTheFisterXx@reddit

I wish…here goes another interview this friday

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leo_rivas@reddit (OP)

Good luck!!🍀 You got this👍

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