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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. 🎩🎭 Because who needs to know how to actually work with people when you can impress them with sorting algorithms? 🤡
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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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