A Good Imagination and a Pile of Junk

So I spent this afternoon taking a couple timed programming tests.

I took one for C++ and one for Perl 5.

The funny part is I got 26/30 on the Perl test and I haven’t used perl in a dog’s age.

But I’ve been writing C++ code most days for the last couple DECADES. I’m pretty happy with my knowledge of the topic. I only got 26/36 on it.

Some of those were the standard esoteric questions that yeah, maybe I should know, but haven’t come up in practical terms… ever.

However, A couple of the questions were horrible. They were beyond ambiguous. Multiple choice questions with no opportunity to add a note saying “no no, this is wrong.”

I spoke with the recruiter (nice guy) and he ran the “I understand, some of these are hard” line which makes my blood boil. My chest tightened through the thing and only now, eight hours later, am I finally relaxing about it.

I’ve print-screened some of the questions but frankly I’m really tired and just not motivated enough to retype them out of the bmps.

I don’t mind being wrong if I’m wrong. Doesn’t matter to me. But being marked as wrong without being wrong? That I can’t abide. It drives me batshit.

Yeah, on a kick lately.  But come on, what’s more badass than Earth, Wind & Fire?

Caught myself doing the caucasian overbite to this.