I Am A Developer (Just Not During Interviews)

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I Am A Developer (Just Not During Interviews)

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The raw existential crisis of a seasoned developer who's built complex production systems that handle millions of users but completely freezes when asked to invert a binary tree on a whiteboard. Nothing says "tech industry disconnect" quite like maintaining mission-critical infrastructure by day and failing to remember how to implement quicksort by night. The gatekeeping is real, folks. Imagine building an entire fault-tolerant distributed system but getting rejected because you couldn't solve a puzzle that hasn't been relevant since your sophomore year.

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