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The stereotypical brogrammer hazing interview at the start kinda foreshadowed everything else. When you see that a company is playing games in an interview, th
by neilv 2y ago
The stereotypical brogrammer hazing interview at the start kinda foreshadowed everything else.
When you see that a company is playing games in an interview, the questions are what other forms will the doofus/jerky culture take if you join, and how will it affect you.
- whiplash451 2y agoWhat kind of games are you referring to? The interview seemed standard to me.
- cipheredStones 2y agoThis is the entirety of the post's description of the interviewer and the interview itself: > He introduced himself and we settled into the usual ritual of a phone screen. ... He gave me a coderpad link. ... It presented a simple data structure and asked me to do some filtering based on a set of constraints. ... He kindly ended the interview and asked if I had any questions. Everything else is about the author struggling and being anxious. Where do you get "stereotypical brogrammer hazing"?
- neilv 2y agoBecause traditionally good software engineers in an interview would treat each other as colleagues, not turn the meeting into a one-way hazing. The CS101 hazing interview style was popularized by some CS students with no work experience, and then cargo-culted as religious rituals by others who also didn't have any other conception of what interviews for experienced professionals should be.
- __float 2y agoDo you think interviewers at a company this size are deciding how interviews are run? They're basically just following a script.
- dilyevsky 2y agoOh no! They asked a coding question for an l3 eng position and used coderpad, not some private environment which would be impossible to review after the call! Such hazing Actually one could argue if it kept being “stereotypical brogrammer” on the actual job, it would end up being much better outcome for the author