All fun and games till the PO requests some new feature or change and some poor soul has to add that into your code trying not to break it
Bonus points if the poor soul is you
Fell for the “it’s just an mvp we’ll rewrite it if it’s successful” trap huh.
Faster to rewrite the whole thing
BUT WHY IS THE RAM GONE?!?
RAM is temporary, meeting the minimum viable product standard is forever
The Pirate's Code Style and Documentation Standard....be more like guidelines.
My boss once asked me whether their entrance test was too hard after several candidates sent him something that wouldn't even run.
That's an instant ego boost
Should working code even be part of an interview? Seems like a situation rife with abuse.
Need free contractors? Just put your code issues up as a 4hr take home interview test.
I thought my entrance test was far too easy, I only had to create a blog in my web framework and show doing the basics like validations, secure parameters, etc.
I learned later on that most couldn’t pass because they came from other languages and thought they could get by without knowing anything.
Although, now that I'm an interviewer, I kind of despise FizzBuzz, because nobody thinks clearly during a high pressure interview.
Whenever possible, I love to talk with a candidate about some concrete past source code they claim to have written. I've better luck putting the candidate at ease and then talking through their contributions to the code.
Of course, when I get enough candidates who shared source code, I don't even invite the ones who didn't share source code for an interview.
I wrote "some code" back when I was a child, if you asked me to explain how it works all I could tell you is "through the power of santa's little helper".
All fun and games till the PO requests some new feature or change and some poor soul has to add that into your code trying not to break it
Bonus points if the poor soul is you
Fell for the “it’s just an mvp we’ll rewrite it if it’s successful” trap huh.
Faster to rewrite the whole thing