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No feedback email either. Possibly just ghosted.
if you want feedback, don’t bother doing any of the coding challenges/tests and they’ll send you a “we’re disappointed” email. lol
I have interviewed people for a long long time, and unless they were egregiously bad (obviously cheating, or failed every part of the technical) I have always written them a paragraph of feedback.
Every single candidate. It’s not hard, takes 5 minutes
you’re a unicorn! lol
It’s just basic respect.
one that’s no longer extended and i’m glad to hear you do it.
yeah most companies don’t even bother with the courtesy email anymore
IDK how common this is, but there are stories of companies that make you work on real production code in the interview. Basically suckering you into free work before they give the position to the boss’s cousin or something.
I had a startup give me a take home to implement a graphql api on top of some sample data they gave me. Recruiter said they were in the middle of a migration and I made some assumptions
that’s when you randomly mix up the sample data but still turn in the results
y’know, if you want to
I’ve heard about this kind of shit, but never seen it myself.
Someone asked me to do a minimal but fully working prototype of… a docker hosted store front? It was apparently not very good, but the startup was kind enough to tell me why and I learned a lot. It did work, but I shoved entire python objects into sqlite and that just worked.
Ultimately I don’t know if it was what they wanted, they fixed three things and used it or if it was truly not good enough.
More like this most of the time
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Rejected? My dude, there’s no rejections, just the dead silence of being ignored.
After losing my job to outsourcing early last year and watching the space since then, I have given up on working as a software engineer. I’m currently looking for work at a grocery store or something. I’m simply not interested. I love programming and software in general, but have fallen totally out of love with that career.
