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> The big tech companies will not get pedantic on the language that you decide to use in your interviews. Ten+ years ago, but I received an email minutes befor
by donatj 6y ago
> The big tech companies will not get pedantic on the language that you decide to use in your interviews.
Ten+ years ago, but I received an email minutes before my second phone interview with Facebook that they were passing on me for not being adept enough with JavaScript.
I was supposed to be going over a take home project with the team on that call. They never even saw the project I’d spent the entire weekend on, and I’m still salty.
- davidw 6y agoI'd try and view it positively: you dodged a bullet in that you avoided working with a shitty organization that does things like that.
- paxys 6y agoIf it's a front-end position then that makes sense, considering there is really no alternative to JavaScript (or rather wasn't 10 years ago).
- donatj 6y agoWhile it was indeed a front end project. I was not _unskilled_ or unfamiliar with JavaScript, and had been working with it since the late 90s. I made this abundantly clear going in. It just had not up to this point been my focus, but I was very excited to grow into the position. They could have at the very least looked at something they had me spend hours on. Honest to god, if they'd had a single person cast eyes on it for 15 seconds I wouldn't hold this grudge. I still have the code in a private repo on GitHub and looking at it now it's very clean and with small exception not unlike code I would write today.
- sjg007 6y agoThey passed on the WhatsApp guy too and that cost FB $20 billion. So moral of the story is start a startup!