Comment by wewewedxfgdf
8 hours ago
I was interviewed for a job as a software developer last week and they asked me to draw a picture of a pelican riding a bicycle.
Aced it, got the job as a senior software engineer.
The interviewers afterwards said "it is SO refreshing to find a software developer who actually knows how to code - never seen such a high performance focused, well built pelican on a bike - you have the skills we need".
I interviewed as a software developer at LinkedIn. The interviewer asked me to demonstrate my prompting skills, so I had AI write an article about what the recent death of my father taught me about B2B SaaS. Reading it brought tears to his eyes so he hired me on the spot.
I interviewed as a software developer at Meta. They asked me to do a add legs to the player in a VR world. I couldn't do it. They hired me anyway.
Have you considered that's WHY they hired you?
You should really spam that link here to show your dad’s memory lives on.
Sorry for your loss.
499 connections :(
Is this for real
It’s better than for real, it’s for LinkedIn
I think it’s Memorex.
"software developer"...you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
I am now waiting for someone to show up in a pelican costume to a job interview — obviously riding there on a bike.
Too bad most are now online, so there are fewer opportunies.
soryr to be autistic but is this real?
I was just wonderig because afer 2 decades i odnt think I would even know where to start to code an svg
If you could write the SVG on the whiteboard then I'd hire you.
I also aced my interview by focussing on pelicancode problems, instead of leetcode problems.
There are still job interviews?
"I was interviewed for a job as a software developer last week and they asked me to draw a picture of a pelican riding a bicycle. Aced it, got the job as a senior software engineer."
That is the best joke I have heard this year. Ready for a stand-up comedy special. Or a song. Superb!
If you could actually hand write SVG code on the spot that looked like a realistic pelican riding a bike I would want to hire you for SOMETHING.
Or placed in an asylum next to the people who designed XML
We were hand writing PostScript code that drew pelicans at job interviews in the 90s, then they sent it to a printer a stored the page in a file drawer /s
Little did you know "they" were secretly harvesting data so their models can draw the best pelicans because someone keeps benchmarking them.
You should post your source code you wrote here… ;)
Obviously you failed a trick question. Pelicans can’t ride bikes.
Draw a pelican't