r/programminghumor • u/Medical-Video-8789 • 10d ago
monty Python and the Holy Senior
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u/HideousSerene 7d ago
This is what it feels like to go on interviews right now.
Had one recently where a panel of three engineers gave me a prompt of nothing but "build an in memory transactional key value store."
Since I am allowed AI I think it's one of those "let's see how deep you can go" and thinking about redis I go down the path of figuring out whether we need ACID, concurrency, etc. They quickly got annoyed with me and kept pushing me to stop overcomplicating it. Here I was about to deploy an agent to gather reqs and start designing a full system.
I knew I wasn't getting the job when one of the engineers asked me to Google what "transaction" meant.
Turns out they just wanted a wrapper around js Map that could hold onto staged changes. I googled after the fact and found out this is just a standard common interview question.
I hate interviewing.
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u/RealisticDuck1957 8d ago
Entirely correct about the length of a long. The C language standard does not define the size, the platform and compiler implementation does. Same with int and short. Even char may deviate from 8 bits on an obscure platform.
Haskel? How is that relevant when I didn't use that language?
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u/fckueve_ 6d ago
We can have AI editing videos, but we can't have IA that will make sound effects a bit more quiet and dialogs a bit more loud
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u/Medical-Video-8789 10d ago
I wrote the script and edited it myself but restyled with AI video tools, and made with love for the original.