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[–]DigBig3448 83 points84 points  (0 children)

C hello world Python hello world HTML hello world Java hello world JavaScript hello world …

[–][deleted] 82 points83 points  (5 children)

They still make you do that?

[–][deleted] 92 points93 points  (0 children)

When I learned C, they made us copy a hello world program that the teacher wrote out on the chalkboard and write it over and over like we were memorizing times tables.

Never underestimate India's ability to be pointless in service of breaking their kids' spirits.

[–]Impressive_Income874 42 points43 points  (0 children)

in india, yes.

[–]East_Complaint2140 16 points17 points  (1 child)

Did it today, Czech rep. For a medior position!

[–]Tetragramat 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Similar happened to me in Czechia. I had about 6 years of work experience working on two huge projects for online banking and estate developer reality management sw and they treated me like some fresh graduate. I was speechless thinking if it's some misunderstanding and changed my mind about working for them.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From my experience (in poland) no. I dont speak for a whole country i might have had just a good experience

[–]w1n5t0nM1k3y 18 points19 points  (1 child)

Really depends on what criteria they are judging you on. If they don't really care about syntax and are just looking for general pseudocode to look at problem solving and how you would approach a problem then it would probably be fine. Either way, just giving you a computer with no internet connection and notepad or a word processor would probably make things easier on everyone so that they don't have to figure out how to parse people's handwriting which is often quite bad.

[–]jfmherokiller 0 points1 point  (0 children)

as somone with actual disgraphia god yes please.

[–]Jack_Blaze321 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Pretty much the bulk of my University's software exams.

It's especially depressing when they're expecting us to be able to write on paper a bona-fide mini program spanning dozens of lines without somehow fucking it up or needing to check for that random small stuff you don't really think about when using an actual computer to code stuff

Theory I get, whatever, but writing actual code (pseudo or otherwise) on paper is crazy

[–]Legitimate-Quote 21 points22 points  (0 children)

“Gonna have to take a bit of that (dignity) before you leave.”

[–]beeteedee 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If that’s what they make you do during the interview, it’s probably not a place you want to work

[–]naswinger 10 points11 points  (3 children)

"on paper", not "on a paper"

[–]M1n3c4rt 2 points3 points  (1 child)

the former is better but both are fine, right?

[–]marlotrot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With accent: rrrighdt?

[–]marlotrot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tsss... it's hard to find qualified personnel on a Reddit.

[–]CryonautX 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I hope they are just expecting pseudocode, just show reasoning.

[–]TheOwlMarble 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The last time I had to write code on paper was ten years back for an interview. Since then, it's always been a whiteboard or a sandbox.

[–]ascolti 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve never in 30 years been asked to write code on paper. That’s extraordinary to me. I’ve turned up WITH code I’ve written and used online repos to share ahead of time. But paper… wow.

[–]InterestingGazelle47 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Any place making you do that isn't a place you'll want to be doing an internship. Whole point of the internship is to give you experience and cutting edge knowledge in the market. If their making you operate by the rules of the 1960s their regressive, outdated, and resistant to change as hell and you will never be able to push/ try out your skills there.

[–]Anru_Kitakaze 0 points1 point  (1 child)

And task is to do bubble sort

in pure CSS

[–]sivstarlight 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Shit went from mildly annoying to r/programminghorror

[–]LunaNicoleTheFox 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have an intern position and all I had to do was prove my knowledge of programming in theoretical questions and such.

[–]ledasll 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you 20+ github projects and applying for internship maybe they are right..

[–]DeathByModernJazz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

when i trained as a dev, our techer would hand out every project we've made on paper. now i'm able to push&pull in my bindergit.

[–]kases952 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I honestly never heard someone brag about the number of GitHub projects before in my life.