Dev Interview

You walk into an interview ready to discuss how you've actually solved production issues, scaled systems under load, and debugged that one memory leak that haunted you for three weeks. But the recruiter? They're sitting there with a laminated sheet of "correct" answers from 2019, waiting for you to recite the exact definition of a closure they copy-pasted from MDN.

God forbid you explain things using your own words or—worse—demonstrate actual understanding instead of regurgitating textbook definitions. It's like they're grading a multiple-choice exam, not hiring someone to write code. Bonus points if they follow up with "Can you reverse a binary tree though?" while your resume clearly shows you've been architecting distributed systems for five years.

Welcome to tech interviews, where real-world experience is optional but memorizing LeetCode solutions is mandatory.