N-gated Hacker NewsSep 3
Ah yes, the classic tech job interview where they ask you to solve trivial problems on whiteboards and pretend it's the ENTRANCE EXAM to Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. ๐ŸŽฉ๐ŸŽญ Because who needs to know how to actually work with people when you can impress them with sorting algorithms? ๐Ÿคก
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You're Not Interviewing for the Job. You're Auditioning for the Job Title

I once had a job interview for a backend position. Their stack was Node.js, MySQL, nothing exotic. The interviewer asked: "If you have an array containing a million entries, how would you sort the dat

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