Comment by zhxiaoliang
16 hours ago
The author’s memory is remarkable. I hardly remember my own name that far back, LOL. Back then, I knew I would always struggle with those types of interviews, so I always carried a floppy disk with me to them. The disk contained a few programs I had written, and I would simply tell the interviewers, “Don’t give me a quiz. I’m terrible at it, so if you do, I’m out.” However, if they were willing to look at my capabilities, I would share a few of my programs. That approach actually worked most of the time and got me the jobs. The good old days!
Memory is a funny thing.
I also take months to learn new names, but I can tell you that my second interview ever was for a company which did low level SCADA work. Even though I never took that job or worked in any such related field I can still tell you what it stands for.
Names disappear instantly, but some oddly specific technical acronym from one interview decades ago gets burned into ROM
A small floppy full of actual programs probably said much more about your ability than a whiteboard quiz ever could
I can tell this is from forever ago by floppy disk.
Yes, but it feels like yesterday...
That's an IRL save icon for anyone who's wondering.
3D printed to the finest details, heck it can even store like half a picture.
I fondly recall pirating Strike Commander on 35 floppies, it took quite a few sessions to transfer this since there was quite often some data reading error... good memories, feel like from 5 centuries ago
Why did that approach change?
I’m not sure if that strategy still works in today’s job market. It might still be, but I’m not the one to answer since I haven’t been on a job interview in quite some time.
Surely the modern equivalent to that is having public git repositories.
Perhaps, but has "I'm not doing your whiteboard challenge - check out my git repositories instead!" ever worked for you?!
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