Developer Interviews In 2025 Be Like (Part 2)

Movie Name: The Pursuit of Happyness

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[CrispyCremey]

i got a quote to paint my house, 17k for upstairs downstairs and three accent walls, which they would all do in like 5 day. yeah a painter makes more lol

[duytdl]

Developers should band together and create products. Then hire marketers n accountants to sell it and get paid. THAT would be the inversion of a binary tree.

[pqsk]

I interviewed once for this job and the questions were so difficult. I did really good. I was even told one network question, they never had anyone answer correctly. Final interview was coding, mind you I did NOT prep for this interview at all. I hadn't interviewed in about 10 years, so was winging it. Last problem was, what I realized now, a tree problem. I came up with a solution, and we were just optimizing with each iteration. We ran out of time. I ultimately got the job with the pay I requested, but a lower position. The job was a billion times easier than my previous job. I laughed. Money was much better, so less stress, but it was just so hilarious how difficult the interviews were compared to the job

[martijn]

Exactly this. I once failed an interview because I didn’t immediately understand a question about time complexity. I programmed games for over 25 years on hardware from the Gameboy to the PS4. I have extensive practical knowledge about optimization and low level programming. But apparently that counted less than some theoretical question about a linked list and time complexity.

[belava]

100% true and accurate.

Sometimes interviewers don't even know the right answer themselves. Once, I was asked a question about the Java Memory Model and answered correctly. However, this very young, arrogant person (probably their first job) started bashing me, saying that JMM is not about threads interacting through memory but instead is about something else.
And they didn't care in the slightest that I was a lead developer of a distributed system which calculated flight changes, flight delays, schedule changes, address changes, flight reminders... in real time for over 20 international flight carriers while sending emails and SMS messages all around the globe.

[FrickinCCDeVileV]

I was lucky my first job was with a small company, they didn't ask any of this nonsense, we just had a reallistic conversation and I showed them a project I had done. They put me on a one week test task to start and were happy. God bless those guys, I think smaller companies are better. 60k a year plus big bonuses and that was almost 20 years ago.

[kalebbruwer]

They're really gunning for that one guy whose never written anything longer than 3000 lines, but has memorized all of leetcode

[samuelbanya]

This is actually how some interviews are. It's nuts

[liquidsnake]

The funniest thing is you can't answer, are honest and then ask them for the answer out of curiosity and they can't answer either

[mytube]

“It’s about passion, not money”
“My passion is to make money”

[Tassaczek]

Best part, you answer it. They hire you, and hardest thing you do on a job is fixing button styling.

[AjinkyaBhushan]

fun fact: Painting as a job pays more than a Junior Developer in 2024

[OHOHOHCOME]

The interview is more about culling out individuals who don’t want to be a slave to the company than actually finding someone qualified.

[thygrrr]

The stab at the Javascript logo was savage.

[nccamsc]

I had an offer from a CTO, then he left and the next one interviewed me as well and asked me to do exactly that - invert a binary tree. In 15 years I never had to do that at work and was rusty on the algorithm, so the guy rescinded the offer made by his predecessor. No biggie, I think people should be questioned about the work they will be doing, not on something that can be memorised by someone with no experience.

[kitebeachinnbeachinn]

Literally Google Rejected Max howell the creator of Homebrew because he could not reverse the binary tree!

[QmdVJKrCjUk]

I also think the whole interview process is really sinister. I remember when i was looking for my first job back in 2017, i was much more confident at algorithms cos i trained a lot. But people always told me they were looking for somebody with real-world experience. That make sense. But after 8 years in the industry working at multiple positions, you tell me to write a function to check the sequence of an array? WTF!

[YeloPartyHat]

"It's about understanding the fundamentals" 😂😂😂😂😂

[ibunker]

Wow !. amazing how real this is. Great job! 21+ years dev here :)

[jacekkurlit]

I just had an interview and must admit this hits too close.