Joseph H Sadove
1 min readJul 14, 2024

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I've had tech interviews since 1981. In the beginning they were simple. Data structure and algorithms were quick standard written tests. Then you would be given a specific test on the platforms and languages you used. The length and depth of these was the easiest part and it was easy to describe what your experience was. Then arose the Gotcha-Era. And write a short program or "do you know what this does and how you would use it". And then it piled into what hardware was used, what stack, how long, etc. And then Cloud came. The weird and awful thing about Cloud is the belief that it mattered which you used and what you knew in what depth. Sure, containers and Kubernetes changed things a bit, but before the advent of these it was actually useful to be able to describe the platform(s) you used. With cloud/containers/orchestration it became silly. And even sillier with which one.

I am sorry for today's world.

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