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Walking into an interview, being given vi and told to write code would be a horrible experience. Expecting someone to grasp a dramatically different editor wit
by hluska 7y ago
Walking into an interview, being given vi and told to write code would be a horrible experience.
Expecting someone to grasp a dramatically different editor with interview jitters is unfair. Frankly, that’s the kind of behaviour that would be a massive red flag for me - it would absolutely lead me to reject any position I was offered.
- folkhack 7y agoAgree. I'm perfectly capable at vi and I'd probably just walk because it shows total arrogance on the interviewer's part. Anecdotal - I use zsh, with the bureau theme - pretty obvious it's not just a bash shell. During a more operations-focused interview I had someone ask me if he could use bash because he wasn't very familiar with zsh and would like to work with a known tool. Super competent guy. I thought it was a perfectly reasonable request.
- inferiorhuman 7y agoAdditionally vi is so configurable that one may be intimately familiar with their own vi configuration but really awkward with the stock (or interviewer's) configuration.
- folkhack 7y ago> Additionally vi is so configurable that one may be intimately familiar with their own vi configuration Didn't even think of that - you could totally say the same about my Sublime editor =D People are comfortable with their own tools and I don't like putting candidates into a corner with what they're using.