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Not at all. I'm getting at the fact that many frontend devs don't know JavaScript, they just know cut-and-paste jQuery or how to fiddle with/maintain React/Angular components in a large app.
I doubt you can really just cut-n-paste jQuery in any nontrivial web app...
If you were to type in 5+2 into a cell, what would be the result?
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When I read articles like this, I tend to assume that they are exaggerations written by people who feel burned because they didn't get the job they want and that the reason was unfair interview questions. In other words, I simply don't believe that interviewers are, as a group, so stupid that they regularly ask obscure Excel questions when they are plainly not relevant. To continue with the recruiting example, I susp…
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I think it's at least partly because how averse many shops are to hiring people; even people who clearly lied on their interview/resume. At one point in the past I worked with someone who was incapable of understanding pass-by-reference; something like: int getFoo(foo *out); A colleague spent multiple hours per day for a week trying to explain this to them. After a week they still were unable to successfully make use…
Isn't this passing by pointer and not passing by reference?
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Most recently I asked if the recruiter knew the difference between Java and JavaScript, since he had just mentioned both of them. "Uh, they're web technologies... in very high demand." "Yes, but is there a difference between them? What kind of web technologies are they?" Long pause. The background silence changes a little, as though a hand were placed over the telephone's mouthpiece. I can't hear the word in the conv…
Perfect. Next time you should respond, "Hmm...that's not what I have here. The answer is, 'JavaScript uses Electron and Java uses Spring.' I'm sorry, I don't think you're a great fit for us. Best of luck and have a good day." Then hang up, and kill two birds with one stone in the process: the tone-deaf recruiter finally understands how the buzzword bingo interview feels, and you have one less incompetent recruiter to…
This is a picture perfect description of my interview with stitchfix.
I'm sorry to hear that. For which position were you interviewing?
Granted I acknowledge Im not perfect and desirable in every way, but the interview felt really silly