> "what's your experience with C++ or advanced graph algorithms?"
I once got an interview to help fix an Elixir project. They were having issues with the Websocket module of Phoenix called Phoenix.Socket. It's a 1000-line long piece of code of a much larger framework.
The person that interviewed me brushed away the fact that I had worked 6+ years full time with Elixir, and had almost 20 years in this career, and just wanted to know, in three different ways, "what is your experience with Phoenix.Socket", "how many times have you used Phoenix.Socket?", "how many years would you say you'd used Phoenix.Socket for?". That literally was the only metric they used to determine how good a candidate was. Experience or knowledge doesn't matter, just how good you fill their ridiculous expectation.
It'd be like focusing on your experience with "iostream" in C++. Incidentally, only a bonafide liar will somehow tick all the boxes and stupid requirements.
This is the state of tech recruiting in the past 5 years. It is mind boggling.
It’s been that way for 20+ years. It happens when companies don’t let the experts do the interview or try to filter before hand using HR or other cheaper labor.
I once got an interview to help fix an Elixir project. They were having issues with the Websocket module of Phoenix called Phoenix.Socket. It's a 1000-line long piece of code of a much larger framework.
The person that interviewed me brushed away the fact that I had worked 6+ years full time with Elixir, and had almost 20 years in this career, and just wanted to know, in three different ways, "what is your experience with Phoenix.Socket", "how many times have you used Phoenix.Socket?", "how many years would you say you'd used Phoenix.Socket for?". That literally was the only metric they used to determine how good a candidate was. Experience or knowledge doesn't matter, just how good you fill their ridiculous expectation.
It'd be like focusing on your experience with "iostream" in C++. Incidentally, only a bonafide liar will somehow tick all the boxes and stupid requirements.
This is the state of tech recruiting in the past 5 years. It is mind boggling.