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I was such a nervous wreck during my first technical interview that I couldn't remember how to write a loop. Seriously. "I need to repeat this sequence of ope
by jcadam 10y ago
I was such a nervous wreck during my first technical interview that I couldn't remember how to write a loop. Seriously.
"I need to repeat this sequence of operations an indeterminate number of times... if only there were some programming construct that could help me out here..."
So I reached back to my Apple II BASIC days and whipped out the trusty GOTO. The look on the interviewer's face was priceless.
- Declanomous 10y agoI've forgotten how to define a new variable before, as well as legal variable types. I've even forgotten how to write a select statement in SQL before, which is horrifyingly embarrassing in retrospect. I'm not bad at pair programming, but I seem to forget everything I know when asked to recall it in novel contexts. I'm sure I could have typed out a legal select statement if I had a keyboard, but writing it on a whiteboard in front of 4 people I've never met in a location I've never been to before made me forget everything I knew. It really doesn't get much worse than forgetting how to write a select statement.