Interview Humiliation • Hacker News Board

Re: Interview Humiliation

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Post by ubernostrum » Fri, Oct 30, 2015, 12:36 AM UTC

thedz wrote: post #37

This presentation is bullshit. You have no evidence, nothing valuable to show, just spurious subjective opinions. You've put up a straw man and now are trying to knock it down assuming we are idiots. I've seen enough. Whoever said this is a dev I'd refuse to ever put into an interview again. Hell, I'd be reluctant to put this dev into any meetings requiring communication skills.

Replace random dev in an interview saying this, with Linus on a mailing list saying this, and sadly the response to it will be very different.

If you wonder why the random dev in the interview thinks this is acceptable behavior, that's a clue.

Re: Interview Humiliation

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Post by Turing_Machine » Fri, Oct 30, 2015, 3:14 AM UTC

S4M wrote: post #11

I personally would have left the room after the comment on the Linux laptop.

My thoughts exactly (and I switched to Mac as soon as OS X came out).

I understand why the OP doesn't want to name the company, but I can't help wondering if these guys are even still in business.

Edit: saw the OP's comment below about them going in the hole and having to lay off 3/4 of their staff.

Re: Interview Humiliation

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Post by breadbox » Fri, Oct 30, 2015, 6:55 AM UTC

Paul_S wrote: post #4

This is such comic book villainy I just don't believe it happened as described. I wonder how the other side would describe it.

I hear this sort of thing so often. Not the OP; I mean your comment. "I can't believe anyone in this industry could be so obnoxious/callous/racist/misogynist/solipsist." It's true that most people are unreliable witnesses, but don't forget there is also our tendency to discredit unflattering stories of people like ourselves. Let's face it: this kind of bullshit behavior is hardly unheard of. The only surprising part of the story is the quantity of bullshit -- the quality of each individual nugget is all too familiar.

Re: Interview Humiliation

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Post by joshguthrie » Fri, Oct 30, 2015, 10:29 AM UTC

S4M wrote: post #88

bphogan wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, I see this everywhere. There's a large segment of the software industry that believes their way is right, and everything else is wrong. The phone you use, the computer you use, etc. Recently I had someone tell me that if you're still writing apps that serve HTML, you're "doing it wrong" because everything should be an AJAX backend with JavaScript. Is that the way apps are going? Certainly. But is that the way to…

> Recently I had someone tell me that if you're still writing apps that serve HTML, you're "doing it wrong" because everything should be an AJAX backend with JavaScript. Is that the way apps are going? Certainly. But is that the way to do everything? No. Excuse me, but what are the advantages of not serving HTML directly? I honestly find that way more convenient (possibility to give links for example).

Main one is that you deliver less content if you serve JSON instead of HTTP.

Pros: You don't have to rebuild a full HTML page for every new query, be it server-side of client-side, you don't have to serve assets for every request and client doesn't have to recall/reinterpret them, less content means it's served faster,...

Cons: More strain is put on the client (virtual DOM, keeping the front-end framework in memory). Though it's negligible on most clients.