The Best Interview Question For Devs

"Why are you still a software engineer?"

Loves palindromes so much he highlighted the whole thing.

If I take my car to get an oil change because it’s making a weird noise … A good mechanic will work out that the head gasket is stuffed, and explain that it’s not worth changing the oil. A mediocre mechanic will say “yes sir” and change the oil. The good mechanic takes too long on every job, and is bad for business, he is turning away too many customers The mediocre mechanic is great, he always gets the job done on time. Best of all, the customers keep coming back - every week ! This is what we have allowed “software engineering” to become. It’s just a rapid ticket stamping machine. It’s “Engineering” in name only

I still like my "What was something that you hated about any technology?" :)

Mr Tsoding did this challenge and made it look easy

It never ceases to amaze how every sufficiently mid to large C codebase has an implementation of printf somewhere. Either it's done as a macro or implemented as an entire library, directly within the codebase.

memcache-d as in memcache-daemon at least that's how I always heard it pronounced. BTW I haven't gone past 8 minutes in yet, and it took me about 15 minutes to figure out all the changes I'd need to make to add this multiply command. Pretty good stuff though imo. Tests how people browse code bases and how we map the concepts to the reality we want to achieve. Love it. The only way I would use it as an interview question though would be to have them do this live in front of me and ask them to sort of walk me through their thought process. It's all about trying to observe how a person interacts with code and their ability to explain code to another person.

Chesterton's fence is not "don't care what it's for", it's "don't try to change it unless you know what it's for"

"Have you heard about Rust, the language of the gods?" ⚙️

This is 10x better than LeetCode math challenges.