Ive been interviewing at start ups to get out of my contractor job, but recently I gave up.
I had this one interview where I had to remove nodes from a linkedlist. Pretty trivial, right? It is, but as I was writing out the solution, probably for the 200th time, I thought "Ive never used a linkedlist, ever"
And I thought, I just cant do it anymore. I cant reverse one single more binary tree. I cant listen to some CTO tech bro in his early 30s explain to me why I need to be in an office he'll never set foot in for the 'company culture'.
Ive had so many interviews just like this. Ive done 7 hour on sites where you break down algorithms, system design, app development. Its brutal out there, no one seems to have any idea what their looking for so they just put you through the ringer.
So now im not interviewing, Im happy and content in my bank programming job. Im probably not a very good programmer, thats okay, Im a wonderful partner, family member, musician. Ill get by, hopefully, for another decade until everything collapses.
I had this one interview where I had to remove nodes from a linkedlist. Pretty trivial, right? It is, but as I was writing out the solution, probably for the 200th time, I thought "Ive never used a linkedlist, ever"
And I thought, I just cant do it anymore. I cant reverse one single more binary tree. I cant listen to some CTO tech bro in his early 30s explain to me why I need to be in an office he'll never set foot in for the 'company culture'.
Ive had so many interviews just like this. Ive done 7 hour on sites where you break down algorithms, system design, app development. Its brutal out there, no one seems to have any idea what their looking for so they just put you through the ringer.
So now im not interviewing, Im happy and content in my bank programming job. Im probably not a very good programmer, thats okay, Im a wonderful partner, family member, musician. Ill get by, hopefully, for another decade until everything collapses.