Message from JavaScript discussions
July 2017
— 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
— I have
— They're ALL about O-notation, algorithms on whiteboards, etc
— >too much theory is a bad thing
just how...