[alexfromapex]

Are you me?! I have almost the exact same story and feel the same way. One thing that particularly annoys me is how interviews at a lot of places have devolved into 4 interviews and around the 3rd you talk to some smug engineer that expects you to have memorized pedantic things about programming languages. I’ve worked in senior level positions for years doing very high quality work but I still google a lot of stuff and it just makes no sense to me why they do this instead of evaluating applied knowledge. Most recently this happened AFTER I had already passed a HackerRank test. And the worst part is then companies might ghost you if you’re not selected as a candidate.