@D-4got10-01 It's amazing how these guys often assume the worst of their colleagues. Yeah, that reminds me, my colleague also bitched every single unimportant detail to me, to the smallest detail, in front of the manager, just so I could look really, really bad and the manager would get mad at ME, instead of seeing through his game. Good thing they saw through it. Sadly in my case, the other team and the manager were all big big buddies.

@jestdotty Management sadly does, except the very few good ones.

Making memes about a co-worker... that would not be allowed, or should not be allowed at an office with a no-bullying policy. It is rewarded based on backdoors and camaraderie, so yeah.

@jestdotty Yeah, the lame "There's no 'I' in team". Whatever is wrong with showing that the group sucks - objectively? lol. I know, especially the self-butt-kissing manager's beliefs. People have to be more open. Yes, managers like comfy zone; like the expert manager said: "They like to receive the big money but they don't like to do the hard work for it". Their duct-tape strategies make me scream.

lol

I hate "this is how we always done it". lol

It is indeed how the tool is used.

@jestdotty Speaking of management, I did watch an excellent YouTube video on Management from an excellent manager. That guy really knows what he's talking about. For instance, he mentioned how the manifestation of a problem in the real world is a three-factor issue: personal, social, environmental. What baffles me is that most managers don't even bother to look this deep at issues and they just order, order, and order the person around. Heyyy, what if the person doesn't feel good? Not a problem, apparently.

Ah.. whatever happened to true collaboration? That's one of the formulas to success.

Yeah, I've quickly become a problem at the company when I constantly wanted to prove my right (when they were wrong about a ton of things).

@jestdotty The obedience pattern gets really annoying when you see some teams literally following their leader around like a bunch of mindless sheep, with their shoulders and heads hanging. It's a pretty sad sight.

Interesting. Yes, the obedience causes a whole lot of potential ideas to be held back just so the manager can stroke their ego. Having been in various teams I realized this pattern too. One big mouth who tries to shut up all the rest. And you know what's worst? Nothing ever changes and things get done the bad way for decades, which gets accepted as 'normalized' and 'optimal' and becomes an excuse not to invest in anything.

I read a business book or two as well; Michael Porter on management and The Toyota Way being two, and then a bunch of books on Performance Management.

@jestdotty What would you say these scant computer fundamentals are?

Yes, fundamentals help further when things get tough.

Seems familiar of Design Patterns. Yes, the same constructs too. In fact, I get upset with myself if I have to look things up but there are lazy developers who swear by constantly having to look things up and calling themselves 'dynamic'.

Yes, I have no issues on the degree side as I have one from an accredited college.

Being obedient is not my thing. lmao. I rather take strategic lead rather than yes-nod my way through a project. In fact, it irritates me.

One mistake I did make once was fully cheat on a personality test (by answering all expected answers) but that came back to bite me because they expected a Harry Osborn and they got a Spider-Man. lol

@Lensflare lmfao.

@antigermanist I see the triple-amounts formula. lol

@cafecortado The stores are so damn full it's a challenge to even leave a store. lmfao

This sounds like Wall-E rummaging through the wasteland, putting things together out of scrap. lol. lmao.

I have experienced it too.

I think you have the right attitude in programming!

Good programmers become wise over time through codebases. :)

This just goes to show that they hire based on 'vibes'. lol... from The Upside Down!

GOBBLE GOBBLE

Happy Thanksgiving.

Rogan?

In some countries you make 10k a year (yes, even in Europe). 40k is indeed in the junior range (of high-end that is).

I think it's because of moneyyy.

LoL, everyone is already posting gifs on Linkedin about how messed up the AI landscape is.

Best wishes and hope you are ok. - LOL, doing this on purpose.

Back, back, giirrrll, wikki wikki wikki back (Eminem).

Good to have an awesome DevRant girl back.

Beware the ancients. Concealed traps and pitfalls await the unwary.

Look Bill, get with the program, Bill. Just kidding. lol.

Looking over stuff in the weekend? Suspicious, unless I got it wrong. It is a popular experience that recruiters are often there to data-farm you and make it sound as much as possible that they're really interested in getting you a job, but in the end they're just interested in making sales figures (sell person to company). You probably already knew that too.

Practically, what I would do is I would try to contact the company you are applying for, if possible (possibly googling the ad keywords but not likely).

Should the messaging be slow, I would say: wait a day, and if no messages, then call the recruiter.

@retoor Perhaps my message came over the wrong way. I intended it to be positive.

@drewbie You're welcome.

You can also ask A.I.:

list 10 typical front-end system design questions they would ask a developer at an interview

Frontend system design...

I'll try to help with the experience I have had:

- What is MVVM vs MVC?

- What is MVP vs POC? (though not really frontend)

- What glues the back-end and the front-end together? (I think HTTP + data-transfer format like JSON)

- If this call doesn't seem to go anywhere, where does it get recognized?

- Have you heard of RBAC?

- Is it important that the HTML is legible over the line?

- What is obfuscation, minimization - in your own words?

- What are grunt, gulp, and bower and how do they help?

Wait lol I'm losing track. Ok, back on topic:

- React is unidirectional data flow. What does this mean and what's the advantage of this?

- What is two-way data binding and how does it work?

- What is lazy loading?

- How would you implement optimistic and pessimistic loading?

@Lensflare A sound dream.

From my experience in teams the requirements have been:

1. It must compile

2. The code must be clean

at the very minimum

and finally:

3. The code must be performant

in later releases.

Fuck sake this test was so restrictive.

NOT ALLOWED TO SWITCH TAB

NOT ALLOWED TO USE AI

Had to use this weird in-frame headless browser that fucked up the default web page formatting. Great job guys. lol

Perhaps they're not aware that when you are asked to perform something under stress, the logical part of your brain gets turned off and your survival instinct kicks in, which is not what will help with the test!

Nuuu. jestdotty great person!

@TheBeardedOne Here's my feedback: I don't think it accurately reflects of your capabilities as a developer. It only tests how good you are as a lab rat, i.e. how well can you perform under pressure and under an arbitrary time limit.

These kind of tests assume you perfectly know your coding skills. For example, an exercise could be:

Write JavaScript code that passes these tests. You should know how to parse a string into an array of DOM nodes. Then you should know how to discern between parsing and DOM tree reading. Then you should know how to split an array into an array split on words that are pure text and otherwise DOM nodes...

I mean, this shit drives me nervous and I end up fucking up. Would I have studied and practiced this more and better, then yes, I could do it.

@Lensflare Nice observation.

@retoor From my recent memory, I recall that if you use the password, it just defaults to the default (2 lives...). Start from that point with the default amount of lives. As for other details, I haven't noticed yet.

Sorry to hear about this experience, as "this fucks up my day" is indeed a feeling we all devs know all too often, if not every day.

It's a good question, hm. It makes me think about the search feature vs. pagination. I think... pagination is a stone-age concept, perhaps. I know because I worked with mainframes before and it was built into them. I know that it was used so that not tons of data was being sent over the line. Not to mention that pagination seems like a big waste of time for the person searching for something, even if the data is alphabetically sorted. And why defaulting to page 1... just why. lol

Yeah, it would probably be done right if you use the right (relative) offsets or a binary search, insofar the approach is compatible with the db (or you have to translate paradigms).

This is like... a perfect commercial for Apple.

Sorry to hear. Wish you speedy recovery. Plus side: a lesson learned.