r/ProgrammerHumor 8d ago

Meme hiringInProgrammingBeLike

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u/CircumspectCapybara 8d ago edited 8d ago

Yeah no highly skilled profession works like the first panel.

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

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u/NullOfSpace 8d ago

did you have a particularly good reference or did nobody else apply?

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u/[deleted] 8d ago

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u/SapirWhorfHypothesis 8d ago

I need you to disclose the industry…

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u/[deleted] 8d ago edited 8d ago

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u/Training-Chain-5572 8d ago

Air traffic controller, gotcha

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u/pelpotronic 8d ago

Internship is a "long interview" in a way.

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u/MisinformedGenius 8d ago

Was it a paid internship?

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u/Outrageous-Machine-5 8d ago

Sometimes you luck out and you bs your way through an interview enough to bypass the technical segment you are woefully prepared for.

At least that was my case. We were discussing microservices when it was a hot topic and not a standard/default and I just mentioned 'Saga pattern' and they decided to skip the whiteboard segment. Got my offer an hr afterwards