Comment by crossroadsguy

9 hours ago

This reminds me of once when I was giving an algo/ds interview (in Java) and the interviewer started asking me questions where one of the answers usually was “to be memorised” shit like this and he started pestering me to give him those answers (even though I said I don’t know and definitely don’t recall) and that too in C. As per him “everyone who coded knew C.. at least in college” and started becoming a bit more hostile. I think it was the first interview that I had ended as an interviewee.

And I call this thing “bit gymnastics”.

Sounds like someone desperate to prove their superiority - now imagine working with them every day.

  • It is not they way todo it agreed on that, but it can be one of the only way of getting hand wavy persons to get technical. Interviewing can be frustrating when you do not see what you expected. So no need to believe it was done toxicly.