Technical interviews are stupid
Pissed at myself for spending 7 hours of my Saturday on a "take home test". (Pleased I stopped myself at that point, I could have let it drag into Sunday or worse.) What other profession puts up with this free weekend labor "next steps" bullshit to maybe see if the job is a good fit?
Technical interviews are stupid
There's a part of me that thinks just asking me to do that and not compensating my time disqualifies it is a job I even want. But that's also a part of me that is complicit into why I'm 7 years into the same job and sort of bored and wondering if my career path even has a next step (much less a future).
Technical interviews are stupid
(I even bothered to over-explain that I batched things into merge commits "like a PR flow" and they can view a higher level breakdown with git log/blame —first-parent.)
Technical interviews are stupid
I hate this industry sometimes. That's probably burn out talking, but technical interviews do often leave me wondering if the only reason I still think this is my career is sunk cost fallacy. 😬