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In the meantime, I am interviewing juniors who can't write a while or for loop without looking on the internet...
The future is looking grim.
As a senior programmer I can't write a for loop without the internet.
I can't remember the last time I saw a job listing that didn't expect me to be an expert in at least 5 languages. The best part is that halfway through the interview you learn that they are no longer using half the languages listed, and are "transitioning" towards 2 others that aren't even listed. You want me to whip out examples written in Fortran, C++, Rust, JS, and some random word you claim is a language in 2 hrs without the internet? Bitch, I don't even think I could get prewritten "Hello World" examples compiled in 5 different languages in 2 hrs, much less on machine that I have never seen before.
What ramdon ass language could they possibly be pulling out of their ass for you to he completely unable to write a for loop? I've yet to see a for loop, or really any sort of loop that doesn't look pretty much exactly like the standard C style for loop
If you have a C style language with iterator for loops like C++, Java and friends you almost certainly have this syntax
Python has exclusively iterator for loops with this syntax
The only real difference is that instead of a colon
:
you use thein
token.At best I can see the need for a quick refresh on what the exact syntax is but if your a senior any languages you actually use should have a template for junk like this. I don't think I've manually written a loop in ages, I just type out
iter
for an iterator for loop or when I rarely need an indexfori
and the rest gets stamped out for me.If your being tested on random languages you can simply just not be familiar with a language. I haven't touched Zig once but I'd totally be down to learn it. Everybody whos got a couple languages under their belt knows how easy it is to pick up new ones.
Plot twist, the company app is written in a Lisp-like language.