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Discussion on: I failed an interview because of an algorithm

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Danny Engelman • Edited

It is only going to get worse, Raul.

Just wait till you have been in the Internet business for 30 years (Yes, I started with Gopher) then get interviewed by a 27 year old Lead Front-End Developer who has done React for "all his live".

I was given a full day challenge and didn't get the job because I:
A. didn't use a separate document for every component (he didn't understand JavaScript scopes)
B. Used (windows) .exe to replace content in files instead of a grunt script (he had never seen that used)
C. Used technologies that didn't run in IE10 (modern W3C Custom Elements API) (he was so into React he never checked new developments)

These challenges are not about a solution, but how about you react (pun intended)

Even the 30+ answers on the sorting problem give the incorrect answer (IMHO)
I have added mine:
stackoverflow.com/questions/683259...

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Raul Melo

Hey Danny.

lol... that's crazy.

I just take a look on it, it's well explained, thank you for that!