My partner had his 1st interview after graduating devbootcamp. Interviewer asked him a math question disguised as a programming question. 1/
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Completely shot his new found confidence, despite the fact that he's building things on his own. 2/
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Experienced programmers need to embrace abstractions & new developers who only know those abstractions 3/3
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I'll never understand the need for programming questions in an interview. A company would get better thought out solutions via a project
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This is an awesome approach! I did a half day interview with a company once where I sat with a dev and solved a problem and deployed to prod
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Yeah lots of the code people write in interviews is mergable right away. Pretty cool.
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To be fair you're mostly writing language spec or attend committees and barely programing these days!

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In 23 years of professionally programming, I have never written a sort algorithm.
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I tried to make a web app but I stopped because I couldn't program a kernel, device drivers, and a browser
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I call these people Developmental Masochists. They *enjoy* the painful parts of programming and deride those who'd rather get work done.
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if using an elegant language and comprehensive tooling is barely programming sign me up for more!
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People are just awful.
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I hate our industry sometimes.
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I prefer colons to hash rockets.
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so you decided to use all your media-power to unleash anger and punish that person, and just because you disagree... Not so gentle response.
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I also don't share his opinion, but so much anger on one person - too bad, it's kind of cyberbullying.
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