[rurban]

This exchange happened around 2016 or so, if I remember correctly. Already posted here a couple of times.

And it happened to me also. Those recruiters were hilarious, you cannot make that up. I got 8 of 10 by luck, but refused a 2nd exchange with those bots.

[seanp2k2]

It’s great that they still don’t get how pointless it is to memorize things like protocol numbers for esoteric stuff that is trivial to google and find in a few seconds if the need should ever arise, which it rarely would. IIRC they asked me for the one for GRE.

I also had one (I forget the exact question) where my answer was technically correct but “wasn’t what [they] had”, and my explanation about why it was the same thing went way over the recruiter’s head.

Whoever thought this would be a fun little trivia game to have people play for their careers…yeah, no.

I still got through to the technical interviews wherein the first technical screener told me he doubts he’d be able to get his current position again now if he had to go through the interview for it, and he told me seriously not to feel bad if I don’t pass. I did pass that one.

Second technical screen was with a person with a thick accent and bad VoIP who was getting obviously frustrated due to both of us having to repeat stuff a lot.

This was all after a 6+ month dance of scheduling and waiting and hearing nothing from their recruiters. Got a rejection weeks later and never tried re-applying. They still reach out like every 6 months.

[hiptobecubic]

I had similar questions on 2016, although not quite as wrong/bad as presented here. E.g. "why is quicksort the best" wasn't asked. Instead, something more like "What is the average case time complexity of quicksort?"

[sebastien_b]

Thanks for this - now I know what link to reply with for recruiters that keep spamming me as if I’d be interested in working at whatever company they’re spamming me for.