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[Deceus]

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 hope you told them this. I love hearing people talk about shit they do outside of work because they just like working on software.

Yeah we spent 30 minutes of the hour going over a list of questions "he had to ask me" that were rather pointless because all they really did was highlight just how bad the current process is at my current position. One question was about side projects and I slipped in the fact that I was busy rebuilding a car from the ground up over the last few years so the side projects stopped but I had done all that over the weekend to show I was serious about a change of pace and because I missed doing it. Just got a "cool" and he didn't even bother to ask about anything specific.

So you haven't heard from the last interview? Don't count yourself out yet.

Other opportunities may pop up too. The ball is in your court since you have a job and aren't desperate.

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No they sent me a rejection letter first thing this morning.  Trying really hard not to take this personally but this is twice now that I've been rejected before even sitting down with someone. The first position was a pretty bad fit so they get a pass. There was no excuse for this. I just told the dude i was disappointed they made this decision so early in the process and that had I know I was walking into a pop quiz on a data structure I hadn't used in 7 years, I would have been much better prepared. I'm just starting to see a pattern here and it's starting to worry me.

"What's the process for testing at your current position?"
We don't really have one.
"What's the current process for code deployment?"
We push things one class at a time and hope for the best.
"Really?"
Yeah really, I've tried really hard over the last few years to change things but no one with any power to make changes sees any reason to.
"What stack are you using?"
None really, 95% of the work is pure java development to handle the complex buisines..
"PASS"
Wut
"HARD PASS"