fuck technical assessment interviews. Nothing on earth gives me more anxiety than some stranger watching me code and judging me. 110% likely to fuck up and make bad decisions and overlook my mistakes. Im about to quit programming for a living before I do that ever again.

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gonna fucking throw up. Heading out to go find laborer jobs.

I would rather manually scrub septic tanks than go through that ever again

brb I think i need to scream and cry into my pillow some more

I'm having to spend hours practicing these fairly useless common interview challenges so that I don't face that BS again. Honestly, hadn't had to do a technical interview in maybe 6 years. Also going to ask for as much info as possible about the technical challenge ahead of time, many will give further info

I don’t want to change jobs because I don’t want to go through technical interviews again. Sorry I don’t remember an equation from university 7 years ago. I know how to google it though

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yes honestly. only jobs with technical assessments that I've gotten were ones that asked me to build the type of thing I was looking for a job doing. Infuriated right now.

I always thought it was a far better design to come up with some realistic (but toy, not "real work") thing, brief it in a github repo, give almost no other context, and then give it to someone to work on however they want.

Then you can see what they do - especially see how they communicate around it (or not).

Like why the fuck am I speed-coding a csv parsing algorithm with edge-cases with no libraries when I applied to be a React/Nextjs dev??? Why??

The best people often don't "test well"...and the worst folks can very often sail through pretend or ineffective interview gates with ease.

This shit drives me wild too!  On both sides of the equation.