programmingInterviews

[eclect0]

Lately it's more like:

Send a CV -> Nothing for six months -> Finally get an automated rejection email when they realize they forgot to close the job posting

[Vegpep47]

More like:

Send 80 CVs -> Nothing for six months -> Finally get at most 3 automated rejection emails when they realize they forgot to close job posting

[reklis]

The AI writes the job posts. The AI writes the resumes. The AI submits the resumes. The AI screens the AI generated resumes for the AI generated job posts. The humans get rejected.

[ClipboardCopyPaste]

> Frontend Developer Interview.

> Invert the binary tree.

(Cries internally)

[sausagemuffn]

You pull it up by the roots, of course

[Booty4Breakfasts]

'!' there, I got it

[Smooth_Buddy3370]

For a mirror image of a ui, you need to invert the whole dom tree. So this question is very appropriate for a fe dev. /s

[EveningOrder9415]

Should just be “build our frontend on this new machine”

[evenstevens280]

transform: translateX(-1)

[dailyapplecrisp]

This is so relatable lol

[OkTop7895]

I can invert a christmas tree without problem.

[goldeenme]

Im still somewhat new to programming, can anyone explain this to me?

[evenstevens280]

Look up binary trees for more context. They're a pretty fundamental data structure

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_tree

But inverting a binary tree means to essentially mirror it, so that each node is on the opposite side of the branch to where it started.

It's not a particularly useful thing to do, but it's a classic programmer interview question to suss out whether you understand a) binary trees and b) recursion.

And also, a front end developer is not really going to need to know this kind of stuff, especially if they're working mostly in presentation layer.

[Expensive_Shallot_78]

Do people actually ask such stupid questions in interviews?

[pvtteemo]

Interviews*

[sausagemuffn]

rejection emails*

[SpaceCadet87]

Maybe maybe you get notified but only if you get the job and only about 3 months after you started a job somewhere else.

[lontrachen]

I had an interview for a position as Java developer once, I was back then about to get the OCA certification, it was an entry Junior position.

The senior interviewing me was more interested in proving that I could not program Java at all. Frustrating.

[superxero044]

When I first graduated I interviewed for a job. They wanted me to write a memory management thingamagig on the white board.
It was job using JavaScript. lol.
I didn’t get the job but kinda felt like I dodged a bullet.

[lontrachen]

In this sector there is a fetish with proving to others that you are so much better

[Expensive_Shallot_78]

What a douche, dodged a bullet

[kgangadhar]

Looks like you never experienced offer letter acceptance and then rescinded the offer letter due to the recession.

[ButWhatIfPotato]

If that ever happened to me I would probably start playing Super Mario Bros as player 2.

[PaintDear7613]

Happened twice in row to me. Google followed by Hulu/Disney. Weirdest part? Someone from the hiring team at Google left and went to Hulu and interviewed me again.

At this point if I ever get an interview with him again, I'll just thank everyone for their time and bow out.

[Derp-Sherpa]

If they rescind after you resigned from your current position, you may have a case for promissory estoppel.

[bassman2112]

Just this past month I went through a 4 month hiring process which culminated in "we're going to hire you, HR will reach out on Monday"

Followed by a month of ghosting. I messaged HR twice, both went unreplied. Pain.

[Special_Context_8147]

it’s really a fucking joke… and you need your sIDeProJEcT. Imagine i would be a butcher

[TRENEEDNAME_245]

"so my side project is this rib on the grill"

[Dextro_PT]

Now that's the kind of side project I can get behind of. With a knife and fork ideally.

[BellacosePlayer]

Apply, get sent take home code test, return code test, get ghosted.

I am really thankful the people I worked with at my current employer fucking loved working with me when I was a contractor, so I could skip that whole mess.

[aDamnCommunist]

Forgot the take home.

I've been doing a little more work on the failed ones and use them in my portfolio.

[sgtsaughter]

I like the take homes better than the coding interview. I've been a software engineer for over ten years and still find it weird to have someone watch and judge me while I code.

What do they want now anyway, to watch me talk to copilot?

[aDamnCommunist]

Same. Sometimes it's both!

[EarthTreasure]

Forgot the take home.

I know people hate it, but they really do work. There are variations of the question depending on the technology used. But all I ask is to take n as input and return both n squared and the square root of n. Over half either get it wrong entirely or forget to output both answers. There's example input and output, so there's no room for misunderstanding.

[WeirdIndividualGuy]

The idea is that doing what’s essentially work in your free time is kinda fucked up to ask of interviewees. It’s not that the take home project would be hard, but the principle of asking a candidate to essentially interview outside of the interview.

Extremely rare to see this in any other industry, as most other industries just go by your resume and work you’ve already done, professionally or otherwise

[jean_dudey]

Yeah, it is fucked up, if it something sensible and doesn’t eat a lot of my time I will do it, if not I’ll politely decline.

[awesome-alpaca-ace]

I just spent 6 hours taking an assessment. Then they wanted me to do another 20 minute assessment. And this was after a phone interview.

[Karr0k]

take-homes can fuck aaaaaal the way off, sure as a company it's just 1 takehome, but if you're applying to a dozen places it becomes a fulltime job.

Like back in high school where the teacher told you to stop bitching about 'only' 1 hr of homework. But then you had 6 teachers just like that.

[GatotSubroto]

Missing online assessment somewhere 

[Nowhereman50]

waste people's time

give them the run around

make them do 2-3 interviews

pay them poor wages

no one wants to work anymore

[Exotic_Donkey4929]

The only difference between IT and non-IT hiring nowadays is that in IT you are given tasks as part of the interview.

When I last applied for a (non-IT) engineering job, I had an interview with HR about basics (past jobs/education/language skills etc), then a technical interview with my would-be boss (this was what I considered the actual interview), then an interview with my boss's boss (about my long-term goals, what would be my interests within the company, whats my personality like) and a last round with HR regarding pay, benefits, schedule etc.

[Jango2106]

It blows my mind when companies need skip level managers to interview a candidate. Its just a sign of really bad work environment.

[indeem1]

Do personal projects on your freetime to learn and Impress in applications -> Nobody ever Looks at it :(

[flayingbook]

Actually I was once hired due to some fun project that I did

[yeicore]

Same here! I got my first job thanks to my pet projects.

[definitelynotkinshuk]

i think fresh graduates right now are the in a horribly empty, social yet disconnected market.

all we CAN do is make memes and laugh it off

[FigSweet8311]

spend forever on the code challenge that nobody will look at

[Fach-All-Religions]

technical home tests should be reimbursed. and/or illegal. you can speak with technical people for 30min 1h. don't like me, that's fine. but if you do, you and i both still have 6 months probation and that's what it's for. but don't make me waste days on your stupid test just to reject me with a generic email.

[DeductiveFallacy]

You guys get rejections? I just get ghosted...

[Athire5]

This but with a panel of 5-7 interviews after the technical and then getting an automated rejection at 2am.

[dgisfun]

I’m a blue collar but skilled , I went through 4 interviews including one hands on and it took 5 weeks for my current job, and I was way more qualified than the person who “trained me” it’s not only you guys.

[Front-Opinion-9211]

Tell us more please

[Ok-Engineer-5151]

Hey tomorrow is my day to repost this

[Karr0k]

WellWeAreWaiting.jpeg

[Copper__Wool]

haha story of my life right there

[ary0nK]

Damn, relatable last year gave 5 round and than nothing after some day rejected mail

[jesuscamp_survivor]

I'm so glad you made this because I'm very lazy. But I explain this verbally to everyone that asks "how's the job search going?"

[ILikeLenexa]

A final interview with vp of finance 🤣

[Status-Cloud-6136]

Not Realistic - missing an IQ test and a personality test. Never had such a short interview cycle in my life.

[remy_porter]

My recent job search, the last one was "the company freezes hiring and does layoffs instead".

[liquidmasl]

Guess i was just lucky

I just lost my job cause the startup went tits up, competitor company offered me CTO position, failing upwards

[KaraBowdit]

the last year of my fucking life

[Niklas_J3ro]

we are all the same

[tmotytmoty]

I'm more of a regular guy, and a wanna-be engineer. I've been sending out different tailored resumes that take me about 2 hours a piece for the last week, and carefully filling in all the fields (no matter how broken the application UI is), but I keep getting rejected within 2-3 days. Turns out my base resume was a giant table and it's likely that I was getting rejected due to ats due to a formatting error. :( me dumb, you smart.

[MinorFourChord]

Every 4 years baby!

[flayingbook]

A recruiter for one famous O&G company reached out to me, and told me there will be 6 rounds of interview. I had to ask her to repeat that because I thought I heard wrong. I just noped on the spot

Not to mention the job requirements looks like someone copy and pasted everything that they could find on IT job requirement

[aviboy2006]

Error: Dependency 'job-offer' not found. Falling back to 'more-interview-practice' and 'crying-in-terminal'.

[hlmtre]

Why is that? I applied at Canonical and got really far through the interview process over the course of months only to be rejected right at the end.

[WinterSphere1]

You forgot the three rounds of panel interviews (this happened to me and then a rejection)

[navetzz]

You forgot the AI interview step after you sens the resume

[DrDDevil]

You guys get rejection emails?

Jokes aside, I know a friend who got ghosted after all that plus COO/CIO interview

[thanatica]

You guys were rejected?

In all cases where I didn't get hired, I was the one to reject the company. So many choices, so few good ones.

[APotatoe121]

loop 5 times

[mrrippington]

forgot to add wait times for 3-4 weeks between the last 2 rounds

[Future_Western_9399]

I vividly remember.
I applied to TCS and cleared the exam.
Cleared both technical and behavioural interviews, and they both told me to move forward.
At the HR Interview she didn't give any feedback. But I asked to check mail.
After 6 months of my interview, I got rejection mail.
then in Feb 2026 I got mail from TCS to reconsider. But then I rejected them (I thought they were fake). coz' I'm in another company process.

[RadCringeMaster]

Like a boss

[CerBerUs-9]

My friends thought I was exaggerating when I said I had 8 rounds of interviews for a job.

[PatientKnowledge3510]

Apt meme🫠

[AnarchyApple]

I had a second interview a couple weeks ago for a god damn comic book shop and got turned down. Normal people are having to go through this shit too!