@JohnBee exactly. I use linux for work sometimes, but I spend more time searching than actually doing stuff. Docker has been a godsend in reducing my frustration.

Tactical dot .

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@darkwind thank you! :)

I realized that Scala is definitely not the holy grail it is claimed to be, over Java. Read this
https://baeldung.com/scala/...

@b2plane my learnings from this job -

1. Set realistic expectations from all stakeholders, especially non tech managers who think coding is a piece of cake
2. Writing good code is hard and takes a lot of effort to keep it clean. It takes just one bad apple to ruin the whole thing.
3. Toxic culture is so bad for your mental health. Do not ignore it.
4. There's a local saying, which basically translates to - some people think that 9 women together can give birth in a month, meaning some managers think that putting more devs on something will halve the time taken on a project. Stand your ground and don't compromise at the cost of your health.

@srpatil Yes, kind of. I am assuming you do as well? I did not mention in the post that one has to go through the myjio app survey as well.

@C0D4 Morons can't even get a form right. They've sent 6 versions of the same form till now with typo corrections 😑

@kayb01000010 Of course. I wasn't worried about getting a job, I just couldn't believe that these morons were the top 10 employers in my country

@Hazarth @alexbrooklyn @C0D4 @just8littleBit @fiktion @Jaspreet3480 thank you so much! :D

@BadFox It is a parody. One of my clients once asked me whether we used "new" technologies like mangodb. Hence the name stuck :P

@-ANGRY-CLIENT- My bad too. Such people don't deserve to be called developers. More like scum of the earth.

@mucalena I wish. It would have made some sense at least.

@-ANGRY-CLIENT- This was a developer not HR

@grumpyoldaf X was an a--hole also. He obviously never did any work, my boss always teamed me up with him to make me change my timings. No amount of complaints worked because the boss won't hear anything negative about his wonder boy. So I had to do the work of 3 people alone because for me deadline is a deadline, not a mile marker. Good it paid off at the end.

@syentix Yes you're right. Not applicable in this case. He wasn't willing to specify the limits of the input data set.
In his words, "make your assumptions, it should work for huge inputs and small inputs". So I went with divide and conquer.

@AlmondSauce I was going through the above rounds because I was curious about how bad developers can be, and also because it was a lazy Sunday, I didn't have much to do.

This was a startup which had recently attained unicorn status.

@Commodore 😂😂

@grumpyoldaf Thank you! :D

@alexbrooklyn It took me two and a half months to get him on this screenshare(proxy, firewall, human idiocy issues etc) to show him what was wrong. Prior to that the email chain to fix above issue became so long that the gmail android app hung each time I opened it.

@alexbrooklyn I have achieved Dalai Lama level of patience after dealing with clients like these. I'm quite close to salvation 😂

@netikras I doubt that. I'll be developing it afresh, so I guess others will be dealing with shitty arch 😂😂

@cprn This wasn't the case with me. Our emails were deleted permanently.

@bahua Exactly my expectations as well.

@bahua Wasn't hosted by them. Third party service.

@PappyHans Also, welcome to devrant bro! :)

@PappyHans I did. I really like interviews, you learn a lot both ways. However, this interview was one of the weirdest. Will post about it in a couple of days! :D

@PappyHans I actually stayed back for the interview as well. Will post about it another rant.
It was a free sunday, had nothing better to do. Figured this would be good devrant material at least :P

@cprn

1. Yes
2. Yes

I can't have access to company email when I leave the company. My company email account is deleted as part of the exit formalities.

@iAmNaN It wasn't. It was a person who was replying. The person was messaging from their company ID (not a single id like help@company.com) and had a valid linkedin profile. I assume they either had no training or were blind and couldn't read what I was asking.
I wish they were using templates, if they were going to say the same thing again and again. Not even that much efficiency. Sigh.
Also, the company who is unable to send emails would sure as hell not be able to integrate a bot.