[thebeastie]

Code interview practical exercises. Ive been asked to do them maybe 6-10 times. Each time I completed the test to a high standard and got rejected for other random reasons. Once I spend a day writing a PostgreSQL extension in C to shuttle data between tables, at the request of a company, and I didn’t even get an interview.

Once I interviewed for a company and everything was great but they said my rate was too high even though I had told them up front.

Once I showed up and the interviewer wasn’t even there and they hadn’t bothered to let me know.

Once a dude got me to propose and diagram an architecture for their actual system during the interview and I didn’t hear from them again. Swindled.

Then there’s having recruiters breathing down your neck and asking invasive questions while protecting all the details about the client and the job…

Yea. Done with it