While I love the "edgy-ness" of this, I remember doing something like this around 2013 in Manhattan and kind of enjoyed it. They had me go into a room, and gave me a paper with an open ended question: it was something along the lines of, write as much detail as I could about what happens when a user visits a URL in a web browser. E.g. explain as much as I know about TCP, HTTP requests, web servers, etc. I think I touched on how Cookies worked as well.

No AI, no leet code, just old fashioned gauging someone's experience and communication skills.

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intrasight an hour ago | parent | next [-]

My first job interview in 1989 after college:

Them: "Do you know TCP/IP?". Me: "Yes". Them: "you're hired"

Job at the Westinghouse instrumenting nuclear power plants. Simpler times then.

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_whiteCaps_ 22 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I love this test and will dive deep into switch debouncing on keyboards when they press the enter key.

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nzjrs 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I did this as a test in 2018! Compares to the leetcode screens now, it was a dream

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intrasight 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm fine with technical interviews that are "test-like", with questions and answers and discussion and with an engineer who is my technical equal. But this was not that.

	▲	steveBK123 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The more inhumane the screener the worse the job in my experience. Had one recently that waived me thru and then sent me straight to talking to senior management/stakeholders/etc but literally no one on the team itself. Couldn’t get a straight answer as to what team does, what role is for, real day to day I’d be walking. Only clear thing was scale of architectural mess stemming from a political mess… and not a lot of interest in changing it. They wanted a seasoned tech body to throw into the grinder 12-15hr days to replace the last one. No thanks.