I bomb most technical interviews if I'm being honest. I struggle quite a bit with the text book questioning part of the process, mostly with using the correct terminology. I think this is partly because I've been remote for the last 10 years and don't talk programming with other developers very often, but also I'm just the kind of guy that struggles grasping the words I'm looking for in conversation and ends up saying things in a round about way.

I'm probably in the minority here, but I prefer live coding exercises. Definitely more confident showing my competence than trying to explain it.

Planet fitness is the absolute worst offender in my mind. I had a membership once at a location and did not close it before moving out of state. Fair to assume I could just cancel over the phone, but this is not something they would do. Apparently the contract says cancellations have to be in person at the branch you opened your membership at. Even after explaining I was multiple states away and could not do this they refused to close my account and continued to bill me. I asked my bank to deny all future payments to them, and this worked for a month or two before payments started getting pulled again. this went on for over a year until I eventually went back to visit friends and was able to close the membership in person. I can't imagine this is legal, but I guess it's probably worked out well enough for them to be worth it. I've heard the same story from a few people since this all happened.

Why it wouldn't be legal? It was in the contract.

No, I don't think LSD was involved. Just psychological abuse.

Almonds as a crop aren't going to provide enough nutrients for bees, but yeah, it's an issue anywhere large monocultures exits.

>Generally, the "10x devs" are the ones who got to do the initial greenfield work. They are the ones who understand the system, including all the undocumented domain knowledge that has been embedded into it over the years.

I think this is exactly right. Especially when working on large projects with complex business logic.

it's an Irish joke, that speaks the the Irish sense of humor. Irish people will jab at the Irish way all day long. It's really not offensive; certainly not as offensive as someone else coming along and deciding to be offended on others' behalf. lighten up.

I wouldn't, no. if a teammate wanted to do a video chat or quick phone call with me they can ping me on slack and ask if it's a good time. this sort of feature adds an unspoken expectation to my home office... that I'm supposed to be immediately available whenever someone wants to turn on the video feed. I'm not interested in that.

I have a similar experience with HPPD...the ability to "flex" the mind to either increase or decrease the degree to which I was experiencing the visual pattern distortions. it was mostly just a matter of directing attention into the experience vs. pulling out of it. anyway, fascinating thread on HN this morning.

With HPPD, do you find that you're able to increase/decrease the levels of distortions by mentally moving into it/ pulling out of it? I developed fairly severe HPPD from a large dose of LSD as well. This was about 20 years ago. It eventually waned over the course of a few years and is no longer noticeable though.

to be honest, I think this has more to do with the way a lot of companies interview. I was probably a much stronger interviewee immediately after graduating college than I am now after having worked in the field for half a decade. I'm a much more skilled developer now though. I don't read textbooks in my free time, so if I end up in an interview where they are asking me textbook questions I'm not going to do as well. I had an interview recently for a senior dev role and they were asking me things like, "what are the 4 pillars of OOP?", and I thought to myself, "Off the top of my head, IDK, but it sounds like something I probably learned in school."

edit: I guess you're more so comparing people with degrees vs. those without so my response would better fit under the parent comment. basically all I'm saying is yes, 10 years experience does mean something in this field, but if your interview style isn't picking up on that then your interview process is broken.