{"id":7224,"date":"2009-11-02T13:58:42","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T17:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=7224"},"modified":"2009-11-02T13:58:42","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T17:58:42","slug":"oooff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=7224","title":{"rendered":"Oooff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/fail2.jpg\"><\/center><br \/>\nJust got my ass totally kicked during a phone interview. The guy asked a bunch of very specific technical questions that I had absolutely no answer for. Ouch. Embarrassing!<\/p>\n<p>And if that wasn't bad enough, after leading me to think that the job was going to be a lot of new development, he gets me to give my opinion on new development (love it) vs maintaining old code (do not love it). But this is the wrong opinion, of course (though I bet nine out of ten developers share it). So I spend the next 20 minutes hopelessly trying to defend my opinion while he makes it clear that having such an opinion is a problem for this job which, <em>actually<\/em>, will involve a lot of old code, and that getting into old code can be a great thing, and a way to prove yourself, and don't all companies have a lot of old code, and ... ugh. All good points! Valid points! Indisputable points! Points I should've never given him the opportunity to make, however. <\/p>\n<p>Oh well. Can't win 'em all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just got my ass totally kicked during a phone interview. The guy asked a bunch of very specific technical questions that I had absolutely no answer for. Ouch. Embarrassing! And if that wasn't bad enough, after leading me to think that the job was going to be a lot of new development, he gets me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}