Message from JavaScript discussions
July 2017
— No they wanted a senior React engineer and apparently the recruiter did not communicate well with them
There was another open position which just required "strong JS skills" but there were too many things they didn't like about me, such as never working in a software dev team before
— Oh shit
— Rough world
— I took a position at Turner Broadcasting instead, System Administrator in their Digital Operations Center, for 250 websites, 500 applications, 7000 servers and cloud infrastructure
— Whaaat
— That's awesome
— TBH the CEO was in on the interview and did not know his stuff. They remarked I knew "too much theory" when I went over all the computer science basics every programmer should know
— I said graph theory was a fundamental concept and can be applied to everything, and in response they basically brushed it off as being "too sciency" or something, as if it wasn't a good thing
— What the fuck
— Have you seen the Google Interview videos on YouTube?
— Yeah, basically I demonstrated pretty high proficiency in CS and how it relates to JS, and they looked through it as irrelevant... fml