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karma
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Once I had to do a 'hands on' pair programming session for a position I applied for... Together with the lead dev we would switch coding every 15 minutes It was somewhat of a horror story...

The assignment was to implement an password reset flow, connecting it to the api and then handling the entire password reset flow, in Angular becahs ye know has to be Angular...

After drafting the ui and setting up the click events, I wanted to hookup the api calls, but then it was time to switch around...

The fucktard dev first started to adjust my classmappings to be more in line with his preference, without touching the css classnames... Ok... Micro managing ... Check...

So after breaking the styles, he wrote the fetches to the api endpoints and that was his 15 minutes of shame...

I continued only to find out the endpoints we were using had errors in them and would not return anything workable...

The dev said he'd tested the endpoint before and it worked, but clearly it didn't...

After about an hour of going back and forth trying to get this to work he got a call from a client because server was down (surprise), he excused himself and had to prioritize on this, running out and leaving me there for the remaining morning ...

I just sat there waiting for the HR checkout talk, only to lean towards rejecting the position...

Fucking waste of time, and in the end the feedback was they doubted MY TECHNICAL SKILLS ... And wouldn't make me an offer 😂👍 nice story bro...

K THX BAI!

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  • 2
    Fucking exploitative cunts!
  • 5
    karma will punish them. I am sure
  • 3
    @mngr well, they are now listed on the 'never apply with these fucktarts again' list...
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  • 6
    Clear case of a lead dev being B class and felt threatened. I had something like that two years ago. The Bastard pulled out a project of mine (started 2007) and questioned my every design decisions. His criticism was based on stuff available since C++11.
    He caught me so effectively off guard, it was pure horror.
  • 4
    @Yamakuzure ouch, didn't you just tell him that C++11... well, didn't exist prior to 2011?
  • 6
    @Krokoklemme He pushed me into defense so quickly, my brain locked and I felt like a noob halfway through their first C++ book. 😢

    But hey, I got the perfect answers that smashed him into smithereens!
    ... 24 hours later... 🙃
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