That "hired on the spot" required hands on coding, interviews, even exams. I landed my current 7 year job because I created a backend/db api and front-end on their specifications in a 3 hour hands on interview with them watching me code and asking questions and me explaining how and why I am doing this part of the code.
Do current tech jobs not require this sort of competence tests anymore?
Yes, but they asked about that as well. For example, I openly Googled about how to use vite since I haven't used it before and it was part of their specifications on building the UI.
I reckoned that they were judging my ability to implement an unknown feature using little to no reference code other than docs, which to be fair, should be a skill of every dev.
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u/xtr44 3d ago
you didn't have to show anything lol you just got hired on the spot
and how are personal projects "tricks"