(10-25-2018, 03:14 PM)Deceus Wrote: On my second round of phone interviews with Willowtree but I fear this is where I'm going to lose them since they want to spend an hour digging into my background and do a "code share". I've learned my lesson about building proprietary software, never again. I asked for some specifics about what they'd like to talk about since my current background is pretty simplistic and mostly centered around complex business logic. They basically just said APIs, Constant Integration and "brush up" on Java given that's all I use at my current position. Given how super vague all that is should be a fun conversation...
Called it ...
The "code share" was sitting me in front of a terminal and asking me to convert an array of numbers into a bar chart. So. Stupid. I took a bad approach at first just to get started and probably rode that a little too long but the interviewer eventually pushed to me to use "another" data structure other than trying to do it with 2 lists. It dawned on me that this was a test to see if you know how hashmaps work and I got the solution pretty quickly after that. Only stumbled once or twice after that trying to format the damn thing on the terminal because I haven't needed to do that since college because I don't sit around drawing ascii dicks in the terminal all day and have to make things that people actually use. I figured it was 50/50 we'd be moving on
The kicker is, I thought this was a code "share". Had I known we were doing trivia I would have brushed up on it but instead I built an API over the weekend after sitting through a crash course and not content with that, I hooked it up to a local database since that's how they usually operate and not on static data the course used to get by. Not content with just that I dug up my app I haven't touched in 4 years that wouldn't even compile targeting the newer SDKs and I rebuilt it in an evening using ContraintLayouts, RecyclerViews and converted it to a one Activity - many fragment architecture google seems to be endorsing as best practice these days. Oh you know just real world things that are actually useful to a company.
I'll stop with the "Dear Diary" BS here but damn do I feel like I'm in a bad place right now. Just feel like I burned through my 2 best options in the only commutable city I have.