josef2025. you go to a website. you see all the elements on the page pop-in, loading one by one. it's like the 90s again. your internet connection might be hundreds of megabits per second. the web designer is using a 4k video file as a looping background, and that somehow loads quickly compared to all the actual useful elements on the page. three seconds, five seconds, ten seconds. each checkbox and table has to initialize its own software stack of UI abstraction libraries and surveillance middleware
Jonathan Perry@jk The next generation of websites will be hallucinated by AI trained on this generation of websites created by graduates who could write a binary search algorithm on a whiteboard
arclight@JonathanPerry @jk if there is a 'next time', the next time I have a job interview that has a whiteboarding exercise, I'm taking my copy of Sedgwick's "Algorithms" or "Hacker's Delight" out of my shoulder bag, dropping it on the table, telling them to look it up themselves, and stop wasting my fucking time.
Assuming future job interviews aren't just a Zoom call trying to convince an LLM you too are a robot.
I do not regret leaving sysadminnery to go back to nuclear safety analysis. It's just a better class of clients, coworkers, managers, and problems.
grepe@arclight @JonathanPerry @jk at least some job interviews nowadays are simply optimised to waste as much time as possible without any need for some kind of input from the hiring manager... and that's not even side effect, but the actual purpose of the process. have you ever done a one-sided video interview? you record yourself talking about specific topics and upload the video somewhere!
wb x64@grepe @arclight @JonathanPerry @jk Jesus, how dystopian
And there's a good chance there is no job, they're just harvesting what you provide for more AI / scamming
Tom DB 🦣@arclight @JonathanPerry @jk That one made me laugh and cry at the same time. Interviewers often don’t even know de job content of the functions they’re hiring for.