My First Online Job Interview Ever

#23 Wed, January 28, 2026

@scuti
They're probably still interviewing other candidates. Consider it a loss and if they follow up it's a pleasant surprise

#22 Wed, January 28, 2026

@scuti Many such cases

#21 Wed, January 28, 2026

been one week and no response.

#20 Fri, January 23, 2026

this job interview is still on my mind and I need closure.

#19 Thu, January 22, 2026

@Zergling_man @matt_the_tall I had an autism bonus multiplier for doing VOIP over WiFi (=> normal sentences come out as stutters if packets drop).
could go for more by "not making eye contact" (looking at the portion of the screen where the interviewer is instead of the webcam).

#18 Thu, January 22, 2026

@scuti @matt_the_tall >not autismmaxing during interviews
?

#17 Thu, January 22, 2026

@Zergling_man @matt_the_tall I got off my usual browser for what I thought was a normie browser (firefox) for that interview.
lynx would've worked even less for that normie use case.

#16 Thu, January 22, 2026

@matt_the_tall @scuti >install lynx
>ignore normie software
>acquire functional web browsing

#15 Thu, January 22, 2026

@Zergling_man
Yeah, been that way for a while unfortunately. Even Microsoft succumbed to Chrome
@scuti

#14 Thu, January 22, 2026

@scuti @matt_the_tall oops, all chrome

#13 Thu, January 22, 2026

@matt_the_tall the job interview I went to was way easier than I thought it would be but also awkward.
that day I learned Firefox is not a mainstream browser anymore...

#12 Wed, January 21, 2026

@scuti
Draw it. I'm serious. Literally drawing what's happening helped a ton with getting my head wrapped around it when I first learned about pointers

#11 Wed, January 21, 2026

I can't sleep.

#10 Wed, January 21, 2026

@scuti haha not really. It's just a common misconception.

#9 Tue, January 20, 2026

I need to chill out and hope I'm not going to get quizzed on all 3 of topics.

#8 Tue, January 20, 2026

@newt like. man. did I fail the interview at newtsoft?

#7 Tue, January 20, 2026

@scuti ok fun fact. Pointers aren't numbers.

#6 Tue, January 20, 2026

@bojidar_bg its some company that sells robots.
it could be embedded, front end, or ML (computer vision) or some combination of all 3.

#5 Tue, January 20, 2026

@scuti Sound like a V8 extension built with scons instead of node-gyp! 😋

But, in more seriousness, best of luck with your interview! (:
As the Hitchhiker's Guide says: Don't panic! 😁

#4 Tue, January 20, 2026

I'm probably going to misprepare too because the job listing asked for c++, python, and javascript.

#3 Tue, January 20, 2026

"its like the operating system telling the program there's more memory than the actual hardware has."
"uh bro? a meme song from the 1990s?"
"its like treating hardware devices like a normal block of memory."
"a process has its own resources like a stack and heap but a thread is inside a process"
"MAC is like a hardware identifier but the other one you get from dhcp."
"it has like bytes, man."

I'm gonna fuck this up in my own special way.

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#2 Tue, January 20, 2026

"Whats the difference between a class and struct?"
"oh like dude a class defines an object and has methods like a constructor, but a struct is like a bundle of data and everything is public. and classes are c++ only."

#1 Tue, January 20, 2026

have job interview tomorrow.
I'm probably going to be asked
"what is a pointer?"
and I'll probably answer in an airheaded way like
"it's like a hexadecimal number that points to somewhere in memory, can be null, or cause segfault if I fuck up"
in a heavier than intended california (=surfer/pothead) accent.