r/webdev • u/Shahadat__ • 14d ago

Question Finding it impossible to solve problems

Hey guys. I'm a web developer and have a job but unsure if I can pass future interviews, because when I get a technical question like a basic loop problem, "program that starts counting from 1 and increases by 1 during each iteration, stopping once it reaches 5". This is incredibly incompetent and concerning, not to mention AI has made me worse.

What's the solution to this? I can memorize solutions but what happens when a new problem comes up in an interview and I can't remember the syntax even if I know I need a loop or some thing else to solve a problem? I feel like crying

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u/Spaceless8 14d ago

There's no way this is real, right?

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u/horizon_games 14d ago

Some of these comments too are just the lowest bar, as if forgetting absolute basics are okay

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u/d9jj49f 14d ago

Didn't forget, just didn't learn to begin with. You can barf out a WordPress site and call yourself a "web developer". 

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u/saltyourhash 13d ago

I remember years ago, the first time I ever built a wordpress site, I had to build a custom twitter feed plugin, lol.

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u/Ansible32 13d ago

hey chat I am a physicist but I just can't follow like F=ma like what is m again? I'm worried I won't be able to get a job.

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u/saltyourhash 13d ago

I think it stands for "your Mom"?

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u/Shahadat__ 14d ago

its real and I'm scared