Interviewed with Amazon, panicked and ended the interview apologizing for wasting the guy's time on a simple binary search question.

It happens. Just remember, your life does not depend on an interview.

That shit is intimidating. I've been there as well, I mixed up languages once at Microsoft.

Stupid whiteboard coding exercises. And you're probably really good at your job. Too bad they'll never know. Their loss.

Just saw this ad and it made me think of your post and what you can try next time.

http://mb.ntd.tv/2017/03/...

@stackodev yo that's the best ad ever I wish that I had creative friends rather than just the ones running after grades.

At least you're not a slave now

Good for you, fuck Amazon, dumb ass company culture.

This guy has passed the test
http://theverge.com/2017/3/...

What the point of a binary fucking tree when your slaves can erase random servers with their stupid hands

I can't remember ever using an interview coding assignment at that actual position. I think it's crazy what we ask candidates to do today. The best interview I ever had was a pair programming exercise, with an actual defect in the company's code. During the interview I was asked to fix the defect with the help of a senior developer, and push to production.

@juneeighteen Great idea for an interview. Sounds like everyday dev problems

This happened to me once i panicked and couldn't even write a recursive solution for finding out anti factorial of a number on a paper 😁😁