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I interviewed as a software developer at LinkedIn. The interviewer asked me to demonstrate my prompting skills, so I had AI write an article about what the recent death of my father taught me about B2B SaaS. Reading it brought tears to his eyes so he hired me on the spot.
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I interviewed as a software developer at Meta. They asked me to do a add legs to the player in a VR world. I couldn't do it. They hired me anyway.
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Have you considered that's WHY they hired you?
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You should really spam that link here to show your dad’s memory lives on.
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Sorry for your loss.
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499 connections :(
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"software developer"...you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
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Is this for real
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It’s better than for real, it’s for LinkedIn
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I think it’s Memorex.
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I also aced my interview by focussing on pelicancode problems, instead of leetcode problems.
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There are still job interviews?
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If you could actually hand write SVG code on the spot that looked like a realistic pelican riding a bike I would want to hire you for SOMETHING.
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Or placed in an asylum next to the people who designed XML
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We were hand writing PostScript code that drew pelicans at job interviews in the 90s, then they sent it to a printer a stored the page in a file drawer /s
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"I was interviewed for a job as a software developer last week and they asked me to draw a picture of a pelican riding a bicycle. Aced it, got the job as a senior software engineer."

That is the best joke I have heard this year. Ready for a stand-up comedy special. Or a song. Superb!

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Little did you know "they" were secretly harvesting data so their models can draw the best pelicans because someone keeps benchmarking them.
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Obviously you failed a trick question. Pelicans can’t ride bikes.
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You should post your source code you wrote here… ;)
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