They sent me 4 challenges from hackerrank as part of the interview process, classified as easy. I'm stuck on the 3 one.
I guess I'm fucking retarded after all 😂

If you can't solve any of it, they don't know exactly how stupid you are. If you solve all of it, they don't know exactly how smart you are.

I'd say the test is pretty well balanced because solving about half of it means they know your limits.

@ananaszjoe good point, I'll take it into account

@ananaszjoe Mr. Glass is half full over here.

I need to be more like you my man lol

@Stuxnet Ironically, just before I opened my phone to read your kind comment, I've been contemplating on my life and about what a wreck it is.

I guess sounding smart is easy, acting smart is a different level

@ananaszjoe hey, we all struggle at some point. I've been through a couple of things myself, and this video makes me want to go forward, maybe it will motivate you too:
https://youtu.be/B9XGUpQZY38

@geronimo ♥

A test like that can never evaluate how good you are. Hang in there. There will be time when the best comes out of you.

Honestly, most of these challenges are esoteric algorithmic mathematical circle jerk problems designed by ivory tower nerds.

No Brenda, I don’t need to know how to write a sieve of Eratosthenes to come in and fucking wire up your bullshit microservice layer.

@Brolls lol that's right. I feel I should be able to solve this kind of challenges quickly, but I also think that the time I use in trying to get better at that is time that I don't use in, for example (as you say) learning how to put together an app using microservices.

@geronimo honestly, nothing better for making me feel stupid than “here’s an array, find all the common pairs and organise them according to the sacred geometry as dictated by Satan”

Bitch, please.

@Brolls lol, one of the challenges was something like that, but with mountains and valleys instead of the sacred geometry of satan.
Honestly, it would have been a lot funnier if it were satan related 😅

@geronimo see?! It’s utter bullshit.

Most algorithmic and mathematical problems are already available online, knowing what they’re called and how to find the solutions online is way more important.

No, I couldn’t write a graph-based, word similarity algorithm by heart, if you can, power to you! Google and SO are there and I can kludge it together in debug until it fucking works and the tests pass.

If the internet is down, and I’m working on your cloud-based webapp, then there are bigger problems than me not being able to do that by heart.

Literally couldn’t give two fucks for it.

I’d much rather know how to spin up a new entity framework project and get it deployed, than be able to rearrange a fucking array and nothing else.

@Nanos well, the rant is about feeling that you should be able to solve something and you can't. I don't really care that much about this specific job. I could easily look for the solution, but I rather send them what I got.

@Nanos for sure, I'll keep you updated 👍👍