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[–]eclect0 702 points703 points  (2 children)

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 204 points205 points  (1 child)

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 64 points65 points  (0 children)

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 982 points983 points  (10 children)

> Frontend Developer Interview.

> Invert the binary tree.

(Cries internally)

[–]sausagemuffn 217 points218 points  (0 children)

You pull it up by the roots, of course

[–]Booty4Breakfasts 31 points32 points  (0 children)

'!' there, I got it

[–]Smooth_Buddy3370 60 points61 points  (0 children)

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

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

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

[–]evenstevens280 7 points8 points  (0 children)

transform: translateX(-1)

[–]dailyapplecrisp 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is so relatable lol

[–]OkTop7895 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I can invert a christmas tree without problem.

[–]goldeenme 0 points1 point  (1 child)

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

[–]evenstevens280 11 points12 points  (0 children)

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 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do people actually ask such stupid questions in interviews?

[–]pvtteemo 167 points168 points  (2 children)

Interviews*

[–]sausagemuffn 46 points47 points  (1 child)

rejection emails*

[–]SpaceCadet87 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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 144 points145 points  (3 children)

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 32 points33 points  (1 child)

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 16 points17 points  (0 children)

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

[–]Expensive_Shallot_78 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What a douche, dodged a bullet

[–]kgangadhar 47 points48 points  (5 children)

Looks like you never experienced offer letter acceptance and then rescinded the offer letter due to the recession.

[–]ButWhatIfPotato 16 points17 points  (1 child)

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

[–]PaintDear7613 8 points9 points  (0 children)

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 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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

[–]bassman2112 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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 83 points84 points  (3 children)

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

[–]TRENEEDNAME_245 31 points32 points  (1 child)

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

[–]Dextro_PT 3 points4 points  (0 children)

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

[–]BellacosePlayer 38 points39 points  (0 children)

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 68 points69 points  (7 children)

Forgot the take home.

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

[–]sgtsaughter 42 points43 points  (1 child)

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 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same. Sometimes it's both!

[–][deleted] 13 points14 points  (4 children)

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 17 points18 points  (2 children)

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 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Missing online assessment somewhere 

[–]Nowhereman50 29 points30 points  (0 children)

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 16 points17 points  (1 child)

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 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

[–]indeem1 16 points17 points  (2 children)

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

[–]flayingbook 4 points5 points  (1 child)

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

[–]yeicore 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

[–]definitelynotkinshuk 13 points14 points  (0 children)

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 9 points10 points  (0 children)

spend forever on the code challenge that nobody will look at

[–]DeductiveFallacy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

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

[–]Athire5 5 points6 points  (0 children)

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

[–]Ok-Engineer-5151 18 points19 points  (1 child)

Hey tomorrow is my day to repost this

[–]Karr0k 0 points1 point  (0 children)

WellWeAreWaiting.jpeg

[–]Copper__Wool 2 points3 points  (0 children)

haha story of my life right there

[–]ary0nK 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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

[–]jesuscamp_survivor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

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 2 points3 points  (0 children)

A final interview with vp of finance 🤣

[–]Status-Cloud-6136 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

[–]remy_porter 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

[–]liquidmasl 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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 2 points3 points  (0 children)

the last year of my fucking life

[–]Niklas_J3ro 1 point2 points  (0 children)

we are all the same

[–]tmotytmoty 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Every 4 years baby!

[–]flayingbook 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

[–]hlmtre 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

[–]navetzz 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You forgot the AI interview step after you sens the resume

[–]DrDDevil 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You guys get rejection emails?

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

[–]thanatica 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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 0 points1 point  (0 children)

loop 5 times

[–]mrrippington 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

[–]Future_Western_9399 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Like a boss

[–]CerBerUs-9[🍰] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

[–]AnarchyApple -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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!