badposting is a comm where you post badly
This is not a !the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net alternative. This is not a !memes@hexbear.net alternative. This is a place for you to post your bad posts.
Ever had a really shitty bit idea? Joke you want to take way past the point of where it was funny? Want to feel like a stand-up comedy guy who's been bombing a set for the past 30 minutes straight and at this point is just saying shit to see if people react to it? Really bad pun? A homemade cringe concoction? A cognitohazard that you have birthed into this world and have an urge to spread like chain mail?
Code of Conduct applies just as much here as it does everywhere else. Technically, CoC violations are bad posts. On the other hand: L + ratio + get ~~better~~ worse material bozo
According to intervieees all people applying for Google are asked this question:
You walk into a TED talk auditorium full of people. Estimate how much poo is in all of their bums collectively
Explain your reasoning
I've never worked for one of the big "big tech" companies so I don't know how deeply they've drunk of the kool-aid, but that attitude isn't uncommon at smaller shops. Questioning assumptions is an important part of the engineering process after all. I have been on the other side of the interview table a few times and I like to make up my own questions, and part of the interview process is seeing how well the candidate clarifies the parameters of the question. It's not dissimilar to GMing an RPG. You lay out an environment, the player-candidate asks questions about it, then they take a course of action and we see how it proceeds. I try to be prepared with a solid, work-related scenario because I don't like candidates having to workshop my questions for me when they're hunting for a job, but if they spot an inconsistency or something else I hadn't thought of before, it's a positive sign that they're thinking about the problem the way I expect an engineer to think about problems.