> Side anecdote, but a number of people at my company were making fun of a candidate who used labels to break out of loops in JS. “Those don’t exist” they joked

> Side anecdote, but a number of people at my company were making fun of a candidate who used labels to break out of loops in JS. “Those don’t exist” they joked. I remember thinking, “I thought they did,” but didn’t say anything. The sad part is I really like the people I work with and they are generally smart engineers. There is just such an arrogance to the interview process in tech it is almost unreal. I haven’t noticed a lack of qualified candidates in tech, just a lack of humility in many of the gatekeepers. Whiteboard pissing contests. And this is why if people mention a whiteboard as part of the interview process, I don't bother. I've seen similar arrogance related issues in regards to security/crypto questions. The ability to demonstrate the code actually runs and/or is actually broken from a security perspective is an invaluable part of the process.