Can’t just be me, can it? Currently 0 for 3 on interviews because I can’t seem to get past the technical interview/test. Usually because of some crazy complicated algorithm question that’s never been relevant to anything I’ve ever had to do on the job in all my years coding.
Also, while I’m ranting: screw the usual non-answer when given feedback.
This is why googling is a skill, even if I don’t know then some 15 year old kid from Bangladesh has a YouTube tutorial on it
Half the questions I asked were on a single page that came up first is a semi-decent search. Some people found that page and breezed through it. Others found that page, looked at it, didn’t recognize it has the answers and went back to keep looking. Some failed so badly they never even found anything close to the answer.
The most impressive one was a kid who never used Linux before. He looked up how to edit a file, then modified the file with vi, having never used it before, and he did it pretty quickly too. People like that pass in my book.