Like 75% of the candidates are cheating, and it’s so obvious. It’s a shame because even if I know they’re cheating, it raises my subconscious bar on quality I expect from candidates.
“Oh I see you used Kafka in this design, but it appears to be pushing to your workers. Can you talk to me in a bit more detail about how this works?”
(note: You’re only getting this question if you used Kafka to solve my problem. The answer is the workers pull off Kafka and store their own offset, or Kafka stores it in the case of consumer groups)
proceeds to read off the encyclopedia for Kafka
“that’s great… but explicitly, how are your workers using Kafka…?”
Like, I’m sorry if you’re not cheating in interviews, you’re fucking yourself over.
If you’re not the top person in your Ivy League class with a 5.7 GPA Being scouted by the big leagues in your field, then you should be cheating and doing everything you can to get every single advantage for yourself that you possibly can.
Otherwise the companies you’re applying for are just going to fuck you over as hard as they believe they can get away with.
You may not like it, but that’s capitalism, baby, and the sword of damocles cuts in both directions.