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If it ever gets to this point for me I’m leaving the industry. Some of the comments here are insane. It’s a job interview, if there’s that much complexity and p

If it ever gets to this point for me I’m leaving the industry. Some of the comments here are insane. It’s a job interview, if there’s that much complexity and pressure involved…

chitowneats 4y ago
This will always be the case for high compensation positions. In any human society, at any point in human history. Look for lower pay at smaller companies outside of major markets if you're looking for something without that aspect. You can often set the terms.
hotpotamus 4y ago
People have drunk alcohol for thousands of years for some reason or other. barbituates and amphetamines go back nearly a century now (they were pretty popular by WWII). Barbituates were pretty unsafe and were pretty much replaced by the benzodiazepines by the 90's I think. That is to say that these drugs, pressures, and medical issues predate the software industry.
Gigachad 4y ago
Ask what kind of jobs these people are applying for. I apply for low 6 fig jobs and I have never been asked to write an algorithm or any kind of live coding. The most complex stuff I have been asked were things like “what’s your process for improving application performance” or “what’s an n+1 query” I assume if I was asking for $250k at a mega tech company, it gets a lot harder.
- 7speter 4y ago
  I’ve applied for $60k online chat support jobs and was asked how to check the if you could make a connection to a remote server (I said use ssh and was told the correct answer was telnet), and asked by an executive how much I experience I had as a freelance developer. I explained the crud app I was working on and where it could go and the reasoning why I used certain tools and that apparently wasn’t enough. Great you had such easy questions for your 6 figure interview though.
  - throwbigdata 4y ago
    Everyone knows it’s nc:)
    - 7speter 4y ago
      This was a big nosql company and when I brought up that said database could plausibly be used for data warehousing, the dude interviewing me looked at me like I had 3 eyes.
      - throwbigdata 4y ago
        I meant netcat; but I know what you are talking about. Tried and true isn’t mongo level webscale!
        7speter 4y ago
        I figured nc was some terminal utility, and I hope your intent is to point out that there are numerous “right” answers (in which case, thanks) Was actually called by one of their recruiters, I think she found my linked in because I call myself a “linux enthusiast” on there, and sometimes I wonder if I should take that down but I haven’t yet. I guess I also messed up by telling executive dude that I was more of an relational db guy than nosql guy. Should’ve said something about mongo level webscale :)
  - veqq 4y ago

If it ever gets to this point for me I’m leaving the industry. Some of the comments here are insane. It’s a job interview, if there’s that much complexity and pressure involved…

chitowneats 4y ago

This will always be the case for high compensation positions. In any human society, at any point in human history. Look for lower pay at smaller companies outside of major markets if you're looking for something without that aspect. You can often set the terms.

hotpotamus 4y ago

People have drunk alcohol for thousands of years for some reason or other. barbituates and amphetamines go back nearly a century now (they were pretty popular by WWII). Barbituates were pretty unsafe and were pretty much replaced by the benzodiazepines by the 90's I think. That is to say that these drugs, pressures, and medical issues predate the software industry.

Gigachad 4y ago

Ask what kind of jobs these people are applying for. I apply for low 6 fig jobs and I have never been asked to write an algorithm or any kind of live coding. The most complex stuff I have been asked were things like “what’s your process for improving application performance” or “what’s an n+1 query” I assume if I was asking for $250k at a mega tech company, it gets a lot harder.

7speter 4y ago
I’ve applied for $60k online chat support jobs and was asked how to check the if you could make a connection to a remote server (I said use ssh and was told the correct answer was telnet), and asked by an executive how much I experience I had as a freelance developer. I explained the crud app I was working on and where it could go and the reasoning why I used certain tools and that apparently wasn’t enough. Great you had such easy questions for your 6 figure interview though.
- throwbigdata 4y ago
  Everyone knows it’s nc:)
  - 7speter 4y ago
    This was a big nosql company and when I brought up that said database could plausibly be used for data warehousing, the dude interviewing me looked at me like I had 3 eyes.
    - throwbigdata 4y ago
      I meant netcat; but I know what you are talking about. Tried and true isn’t mongo level webscale!
      - 7speter 4y ago
        I figured nc was some terminal utility, and I hope your intent is to point out that there are numerous “right” answers (in which case, thanks) Was actually called by one of their recruiters, I think she found my linked in because I call myself a “linux enthusiast” on there, and sometimes I wonder if I should take that down but I haven’t yet. I guess I also messed up by telling executive dude that I was more of an relational db guy than nosql guy. Should’ve said something about mongo level webscale :)
- veqq 4y ago