• Zacryon@feddit.org
    272·
    6 小时前

    I have worked with JSON very often and do not know, what ‘Stringify’ is. Reading it for the first time. Does it… convert anything to strings?

    Looked it up:

    The JSON.stringify() Method

    The JSON.stringify() method converts a JavaScript value into JSON text.

    https://www.w3schools.com/js/js_json_stringify.asp

    Okay JavaScript. Never worked with JS before.

    Also, didn’t knew web devs are considered ‘software engineers’ now. /j

  • Flagstaff@programming.devEnglish
    10·
    6 小时前

    Huh, this made me realize all these years that I’ve been pronouncing it as “jay-sawn.” Is it really pronounced like “Jason?”

  • _stranger_@lemmy.world
    25·
    11 小时前

    Ugh, terrible memory unlocked.

    I asked someone a similar question in an interview once. They weren’t doing well and I wanted to end on a positive at least. I asked them to make a dict in python and for extra credit, turn it into a string using whatever library or method they want.

    This was not for a junior position.

    5 minutes of for loop insanity later they disconnected crying. I always felt bad for that guy.

    • lime!@feddit.nu
      13·
      7 小时前

      when i last did interviews we didn’t do live coding, but chatted to applicants about things they liked about their preferred language (this was a consultancy position). people who actually like to program tend to have loads of opinions. juniors moreso. the less engaged people were with those questions, the worse the solution the their take-home task tended to be.

      a friend of mine interviewed a candidate who apparently visibly froze after every question, like it was a quiz. turns out they were being fed answers from people off-screen and those people hadn’t expected casual conversation. they were found out when they forgot to mute.

      • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
        4·
        4 小时前

        Haha I have also done an interview where the person had a friend in the room feeding them answers, though this one must have assumed his mic was worse than it was and didn’t mute at all, so we could hear the mumbling of answers. To make it even funnier, though, their friend wouldn’t have gotten hired either because none of their answers were good.

        I kinda wanted to tell them they should find a smarter friend to help them cheat at interviews but instead just thanked them for their time and ended the interview.

        Though tbh, I wasn’t really impressed by any of the new grads from the schools we were looking at. Some of them made me wonder if they learned anything at all about software development during their time at school.

      • _stranger_@lemmy.world
        7·
        7 小时前

        I once had a candidate give the join link to the meeting out to several people (there were 3 unknown people in the call in addition to me and him). I immediately explained we can’t do the interview with all these other people on the call and he proceeded to try and gaslight me that there were no other people in the call, like he honestly thought he had jedi mind truck powers.

        I called over several coworkers to witness the clusterfuck, many lols were had.

        • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
          2·
          4 小时前

          Sounds like someone bullshitted their way through school to get a technical degree, not realizing that their bullshitting depended on the person they were bullshitting not being good or confident with technology, which gets rarer when you go into a technical career.

    • Pup Biru@aussie.zoneEnglish
      9·
      12 小时前

      i agree but hate to add the caveat that it (well, typescript) these days is by far the language that i’m most productive in, with the fewest bugs

      it took me a long time to admit that to myself

      it’s still a human rights violation

      • iocase@lemmy.zip
        7·
        4 小时前

        It is my GOD given RIGHT to pull half of NPM through MY MACHINE (and get compromised by 500 different MALICIOUS packages) due to my NEED for the MOST up to date PACKAGES!

        I WILL have my hourly update to iseven() or I WILL have DEATH.

        “There’s just no way to prevent these kinds of attacks” says only language where this consistently happens.

        If you ARENT updating your libraries every 15 MINUTES are you even a REAL PROGRAMMER!?

        I MUST get ALL of the latest vulns and exploits on my machine NOW!

        I’ve even written a script to change my API tokens for me since they get STOLEN so OFTEN because my OTHER SCRIPT updates NPM dependencies CONSTANTLY so I can ALWAYS be the FIRST to PULL IN the newest MALWARE.

  • Avicenna@programming.dev
    1331·
    17 小时前

    alternative scenerio:

    Guy: “it turns javascript objects into texts in json format”

    Soldier: “He uses javascript, shoot the poor bastard”