I got dinged pretty heavily for using Linq in an interview test at a hedge fund several years back. I was a little miffed because they jad issues with the memor

I got dinged pretty heavily for using Linq in an interview test at a hedge fund several years back. I was a little miffed because they jad issues with the memory allocations and speed. Thing is, this was an ahead of time test a3md there was no explanations about expectations beyond "do X" and "do Y", etc. Being a nonpaid test, I did what was expedient to me that met the requirements. Most of the questions were 1-liners using Linq, but that wasn't acceptable. I probably didn't make any friends when I pointed out that I solved all of their problems and that there were no other conditions on the solution. Fuck 'em. Interviewing with hedgefunds is a pain in the ass. Bunch of premadonnas that think their shit doesnt stink (but is probably the rankest WTF code you'll ever see) - and I say this having spent a decade at one. A separate fund gave me a private hackerrank challenge. My code passed all of the public requirements and examples, but failed a private test case. No info given about the failure. Emailed the recruiter about my frustration with it, said fuck it, I'm not interested. Figured if theyre like that in an interview, theyre probably colossal pricks to actually work with. No surprise, I didnt get an on site interview.