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0 pointskstrauser1y ago0 comments

I once got hired after passing a JavaScript test, never having written a single line of it. The challenge was more conversational, like:

Interviewer: Now reverse this array.

Me: OK, in Python that would be array.reverse(), or reversed(array). I bet JS has one of those, probably the .reverse method.

Interviewer: Great guess!

That was genuinely fun. I came out of it feeling like I'd learned a few things, and the other person got to see how I'd reason about a new problem.

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ForHackernews1y ago

I interviewed for a Scala role one time despite never having written it professionally. I suppose it's obscure enough that they couldn't afford to be too picky.

It was a pair programming exercise and so with some help from the interviewer and the IDE I was able to fumble through to a working result. I agree it was fun and educational.

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