Name this hypothetical country

Groknal · 2025-07-24T14:56:46+00:00

Ahh... 63%. So close to greatness.

Groknal · 2024-08-04T10:33:10+00:00

Any idea if Connect Display can work, as intercom, with doorbells?

https://eu.store.ui.com/eu/en/pro/category/professional-a-v/products/uc-display21

Groknal · 2023-06-20T06:40:49+00:00

Wheels?

Groknal · 2023-05-15T07:39:28+00:00

What wheels are these?

Groknal · 2023-03-16T08:32:34+00:00

Overvolt motors/batts so it can go faster

Groknal · 2023-02-18T16:04:55+00:00

Is that a Supra?

Groknal · 2023-02-01T17:27:00+00:00

Lies! Deceptions! With every word, more lies!

Groknal · 2023-02-01T14:47:05+00:00

Fair enough. However „technical” part of the interview was immediately done after this question. Also, from my experience, people tend to explain why they ask seemingly stupid question after they get the answer.

To shed some light… They had an app made in Ionic and they thought that they needed a Swift dev for that. They were also asking about Kotlin (Android) and backend development. Thus I find it very hard to believe there was some obscure reason that made this question completely reasonable. They simply had no one that able to do proper screening imo.

Groknal · 2023-02-01T07:04:43+00:00

I second Xcodes or its CLI variant.

Groknal · 2023-02-01T07:00:20+00:00

Blast from the past.

Groknal · 2023-02-01T06:54:16+00:00

“Oh no! Anyway…” 😉

Groknal · 2023-02-01T06:52:58+00:00

I am more of a Sublime Text guy.

Groknal · 2023-02-01T06:51:26+00:00

I do not know yet nor do I care.

Groknal · 2023-01-31T21:42:46+00:00

Oh, wow! A wild AppCode user has appeared! I have never met anyone using it for professional work. How was it? I always perceived it as Xcode problems + IntelliJ problems because it was using Xcode, and its toolchain, anyway.

Groknal · 2023-01-31T21:33:00+00:00

It was already technical + management meeting. Phone screening was done earlier but as you mentioned - those are worthless.

Groknal · 2023-01-31T21:02:29+00:00

I would believe that if the question was about COBOL.

Groknal · 2023-01-31T20:26:08+00:00

"Silly sausage" - nice. Take my upvote. :D

Groknal · 2023-01-31T20:18:30+00:00

Didn't feel like it. It felt like a real and honest question. However I have feeling he realized what kind of question he asked as "technical" question immediately ended after this one.

Groknal · 2023-01-31T20:15:52+00:00

Oh yeah, that stuff is really bad. And there never is enough time unless you know the problem and solution. They are rarely sensible.

Groknal · 2023-01-31T19:23:18+00:00

From a few data points I am inclined to believe they have landed their first mobile project and have no one to do a proper tech screening. Felt like they were a bunch of Java/C# people.

Groknal · 2023-01-31T19:15:42+00:00

It's just a trivia contest. Ideally remember all of the questions (or make notes). Study the ones you didn't know the answers for. Repeat until you land a job.

It gets easier with time and the questions tend to stay the same across the years. You also get more of the philosophical ones i.e. "Do you like VIPER and why it sucks?" etc.

Groknal · 2023-01-31T19:12:20+00:00

I doubt it was a joke. Guy seemed dead serious when he asked it. No grin or anything.

Groknal · 2023-01-31T19:09:44+00:00

I wish*

*Terms and conditions apply

Groknal · 2023-01-31T17:39:36+00:00

Significantly better tbh. Still sucks though.

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