New guy started recently to take over my projects before I return to uni.. he had a few changes to make in one application and I'm reviewing them. He has literally re-written the entire application. -__-

What are people's worst experiences applying for programming jobs?

As I'm still a student I only really have one but here it is:

I applied to a company for a uni placement role working on the Game that first got me interested in Games Programming, they said I'd get a response in about a week, just over a month later on my birthday of all days I got an email to say my application was in fact unsuccessful.

Not wanting to do any more work because you've just closed the 69th issue on GitHub

When you see

int i = 0;
while (int i == 0) {
//Code where nothing changes i
}

If you're going to create an infinite loop you could at least write it as

while (true) { }

and save me a little time wondering what the hell 'int i' is for!

When you advise your PM that it would probably be wise to make some time to refactor and learn the 10 year old system you got stuck working on.

'I wouldn't worry about that just yet'

Yep! you said that last time and look where it got us... -_-