Closed Poll: Testing an intern's mettle part 3
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Not sure about London, but Spain is in CEST because of Hitler (really!)
What a twisted way to get a Godwin.
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While intern #1 was out on lunch, I stealthily moved his table forward and my table backwards, so he can't easily see my monitor.
Filed under: YOU WON'T BELIEVE THIS ONE AMAZING TIP FOR NOT GETTING CAUGHT LIVE-BLOGGING INTERN INTERVIEWS
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I hate time zones.
And I hate daylight saving time. If it's such a good idea, why not have it year round so we don't have to keep switching back and forth?
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Come on! I'm hungry! Post something!
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In Boss's office. 13:10.
Me: "I doubt he wrote the PHP thing himself"
Boss: "I told him there'll be a test. Probably scared him off. He's a no-show."Ring!
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#BOOOO!!!!!
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Young guy, crew-cut.
He came in holding a school card in his hand.
He handled interrogation well.
"We are learning PHP now, that's why it wasn't in the school card"
Couldn't get a handle on him.
-- "What language do you like?"
-- "html, css, javascript"
-- "I mean, frontend, backend?"
-- "..... huh?"
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Time for a test.
-- "So what's your strongest language"
-- "Html, css"
-- "...these... are not programming languages"
-- "..... javascript?"Right now he's making a html boilerplate so he can run javascript for the first task.
Don't know what he'll do for the second.
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Right now he's making a html boilerplate so he can run javascript for the first task.
Not again! What are you teaching developers in your country?
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Boilerplate:
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Well, at least he's keeping his script code separate, right?
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A point towards: "wrote that PHP himself"
He actually used pure js to setup onDocumentReady...
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Ouch! Stuck before he even started.
Seems he doesn't understand English very well...
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Managed to parse the task.
Almost there...
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Interesting approach. I don't think "1 / a" is going to change much with each iteration though.
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Better...
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I would ask him if he knows what
addEventListenerdoes or he simply uses it as a template.
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Done. No intervention.
Hmmmmm....
EDIT: ALMOST
Now this is interesting. He still doesn't understand what's the problem.
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Panicked.
Accidentally entered linux VM.
Didn't know how to get out.
Brain to mush.
Can't figure out if/else order.
Sigh.
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You should hire this guy so you can live-blog the rest of his career...
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COME ON KID!?
HOW DON'T YOU SEE IT!
IT'S OBVIOUS!
FUCK!Filed under: discourse didn't let me post the above.
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YES
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BOOYA!
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Now, let's see how he loads the
file.txtwith JavaScript
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Accidentally entered linux VM.
Where did you get this guy? How the fuck do you accidentally enter a Linux VM with Sublime(?) and a browser open? Did he do it from Javascript? (because if he did, that would be way cool).
IT'S OBVIOUS!FUCK!
To be honest, it did take me a while to see the error. And by "a while", I mean "two seconds instead of one".
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it did take me a while to see the error. And by "a while", I mean "two seconds instead of one".
I had to go back and actually read it, because I'd been reading the comments first and then the code blocks, and that threw me off for almost three seconds.
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Where did you get this guy? How the fuck do you accidentally enter a Linux VM with Sublime(?) and a browser open? Did he do it from Javascript? (because if he did, that would be way cool).
There's a virtualbox window open, he entered while alt-tabbing.
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Ok, he did the first one. He only has ONE year of studies, not two as I thought. Honestly..... not bad?
I allowed him to copy paste the csv into a textarea and handle it in javascript. He opted for PHP.
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this should be interesting.
still if he managed the first one this quickly he may have potential...
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Coding, not hopeless. English, hopeless. :-(
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-1 for not knowing that PHP is an scripting language.
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Coding, not hopeless. English, hopeless
I've seen worse spelling from native speakers of English...
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Candidate, for the last 2 minutes: "WHY IS THIS HAPPENING!? IT'S WIZARDRY!"
No, idiot, just READ THE FUCKING ERROR MESSAGE!
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In almost half an hour? Quickly?!
last time i was interviewing the candidate we hired (and still have working for us) took 45 minutes to get about 70% complete. one of the ones we passed on refused to leave until he figured it out, i humored him until 1700 (i normally leave at 1600) before i kicked him out, he started at 0900 (i had my laptop so i was productive and the conference room wasn't booked for anything else that day)
so yeah. quickly.
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Painful. I'm helping out. I want to see him code the actual meat, not get stuck on fucking file input.
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I had to go back and actually read it, because I'd been reading the comments first and then the code blocks, and that threw me off for almost three seconds.
It took me about 15 seconds. I'm totally outclassed here. :(
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Ok, this is pretty much where intern #1 got stuck.
He needs to make a conceptual leap from streaming file line-by-line, to loading all data and massaging it.
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My brain went, "oh, just leave off the elses".
Then I realized he's using document.write. So total time maybe 30, 40 seconds?
Wait... this isn't tea.... HOLY SHIT WHERE'S MY CAFFEINE
(and yet, still faster than Intern).
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This. Is. Fascinating.
What are the chances he ever sees this thread? Purposefully or accidentally?
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What are the chances he ever sees this thread? Purposefully or accidentally?
Now I wonder, since the first intern is already working there, how bad of an idea would it be to show him his thread...
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This guy? Maybe, years from now.
I'm looking from my POV. Would I want to see myself programming 5 years ago. No. But if anonymous, I would be more interested than mad.
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Now I wonder, since the first intern is already working there, how bad of an idea would it be to show him his thread...
Bad idea, until he's good enough so he can laugh with us.
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$najvecimeans "largest".WTF is he doing!?
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This has been done before?! Off to search...
Good luck. @cartman82 likes to put them in a different category each time.
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I'm helping out, this is going nowhere.
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Good luck. @cartman82 likes to put them in a different category each time.
Searching for "mettle" gives you all 3 at the top, in a surprising occurence of Discourse doing something right.
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The search is pretty decent at searching. They just need to work on the UI so we can have it full page...
