Can’t just be me, can it? Currently 0 for 3 on interviews because I can’t seem to get past the technical interview/test. Usually because of some crazy complicated algorithm question that’s never been relevant to anything I’ve ever had to do on the job in all my years coding.

Also, while I’m ranting: screw the usual non-answer when given feedback.

  • wellDuuhEnglish
    5•1 year ago

    Back when i was a kid, i thought electronics shop were scammers; you knw, solder a wire here, hold power buttons longer than usual, and the thing works again! (This is the reason i got into fixing things 😁)

    But since then, i came to a revelation, than it takes years of experience to knw which wire to touch, and wat not to touch at all; what is worth saving, and what is a gonner… saving time…

    Coz apparently, as a kid i had a lot of time to spare. These days… Not so much.

    PS: i still think they were scammers, coz i believe in being informed… Thats why for every electronics fixed/not fixed (even if its is a punny solder of a wire), i am completely transparent with the user, for both our sakes

    • falsem
      13•1 year ago

      There’s a story/joke about a company that has a large, important industrial machine that stopped working. They call in a specialist engineer, who walks up, hits it with a hammer, and it starts working again. He then hands the manager a bill for $2000. Incensed, the manager demands an itemized invoice because this was outrageous for something that took 2 minutes. The engineer kindly obliges: hammer $5, knowing where to use the hammer $1995.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•1 year ago

      But since then, i came to a revelation, than it takes years of experience to knw which wire to touch

      Might be, might not be. A popped capacitor doesn’t require a lot of skill to spot.

      Not all jobs are rocket surgery.

    • @[email protected]
      1•1 year ago

      Imo “scammer” is the wrong word. “Hustler” is more accurate in my experience.

      Under certain circumstances, those iFixit places are exactly what it says on the tin - but if rent’s coming up and they haven’t had many walk ins, you might end up with a new Flux Capacitor in your JavaScript Microlibrary, since the old one looks like it started sending unhandled exceptions to the teraflop reader - but don’t worry, they put in a new 6-charge teraflop reader that should future proof it for years.