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The Ultimate Reverse Interview Technique

Programming Testing Agile

1 year ago 211.8K views 0 shares

The Ultimate Reverse Interview Technique

The ultimate reverse interview technique! Instead of companies giving you a "trial task" to evaluate your skills, why not flip the script and get paid to evaluate their competence? It's like unit testing a company's management before committing to the full production environment. The number of tech companies that fail this basic responsibility test would crash the entire recruitment system.

The Forbidden Button Pattern

Frontend Webdev Programming Javascript

1 year ago 242.9K views 0 shares

The Forbidden Button Pattern

The ultimate reverse psychology UI pattern! Some brilliant dev created buttons that say "Please don't touch this" right next to "Click here to purchase" – essentially guaranteeing everyone will press the forbidden button. It's the digital equivalent of putting a big red button labeled "DO NOT PRESS" in front of curious humans. The implementation is so beautifully lazy yet effective that it deserves a spot in the Hall of Fame for Malicious Compliance . The dev clearly understood that humans are hardwired to do exactly what they're told not to do. Probably knocked this out 5 minutes before the deadline while muttering "ship it and let QA deal with it."