Not to mention when my mind comes up with the logic to solve a coding problem, it’s absolutely not in a format that lends itself to explaining to another human
So now you’re making me sit and “look stupid” because I have to actually parse out in human language why I think the way I think, meaning I have to sit and reason out why I did something
Because to become teachers, you typically don’t have to have your ego brutalized jumping through irreverent hoops.
I mean going through engineering school and rigorous STEM degrees I can say that stuff is baked into the formula. You’re derided and dogged and gaslit from the onset.
Is it surprising these people graduate, become senior and perpetuate the mental unhealth?
Eh, even the socratic method is quite patronizing in many situations.
For example: underlying does a task that is correct and valid but not what the higher up envisioned or hoped for. In this case you’re just going to come off as a prick for “gently guiding me” to a conclusion I disagree with, but which I’m not allowed to (non confrontationally) articulate as you’ve corralled this conversation down one narrow path based on your personal preference
As someone who while I was a junior was starved for someone to actually teach and mentor me, I’d say this scenario played out much more often than one where I was given valuable education. yrmv
Ok and do you know why people don’t read job postings?
Because the attitude you and OP and honestly nearly 100% of companies and hirers out there take is “fuck it, we don’t want to do this the right way. we don’t want to respect potential employees time, we want to be vague about what we’re seeking and unreasonably selective as we put candidates through a meat grinder”
No I won’t read the 500th repetitive job posting with business hr speak and no clue what actually lies ahead
I’m not blaming you in particular, this is an industry wide thing. But the problems didn’t start with people seeking a career, they started with entitled hiring practices that are more often than not outright abusive
You know good on you for doing the screen instead of an hr standin. Someone who will also happily ask what questions there are, but then fail to be able to answer anything but trivial non questions which are the same for all screens
But honestly, what’s actually the point of this call?
“What do we do here?
How do we work?
What will the rest of the interview process look like?”
Is any of that really worth it’s own call? The interview process should already have been established in the damn job posting. Why 99% of job postings in an industry that prides itself on intelligence is beyond me… It’s not complicated. X rounds, y and z hoops, done.
As for what we do and how we work, I imagine you can either express it in the posting or you’ll need a real call
I just don’t see the point of this step that everyone wants to do. It seems like a giant waste of time, inefficiency, and I can’t help but feel it’s interviewers flexing some weird ego thing