Fuck

I’m so fucking sick of these mind games you have to play with these interviewers. I had an interview the other day: Write a function for a 4 way stop. The goal is to move traffic through the most efficient way possible. Timing of the lights doesn’t matter. Assumed traffic’s only goes straight, no left or right turns to worry about. Assume all of the cars traveling either north/south or east/west are able to clear the intersection on their turn. I did a great job gathering these requirements, and communicating my thoughts, but doing so took so much time and was like pulling teeth to get anything out of the interviewer. Now if you read the problem, then you’d realize that because timing isn’t a requirement, there’s no need for a queue. I clarified that with the interviewer and then wrote a basic solution with a class, tuple for directions etc. Rejected. What was the fucking point of this question? Sure, I could add in timing next, but I just wasted half the time trying to pull these basic fucking requirements out of the interviewer’s head. I had a devops interview today and it was soooo refreshing. It was a chill conversation about K8s, observability tooling, and what types of SRE challenges my team faced. But the weird thing is, if don’t move forward to the next round, I wouldn’t even be upset because at least I was treated like an actual professional instead of like an 8th grader talking to their algebra teacher.