A young Indian techie took to Reddit to share a "disgusting" interview experience he had while applying for a role as full stack developer. The techie shared that he had a year's worth of experience for the role and when the interview started he explained his previous roles and achievements.
He shared that he was enthusiastic in his tone and the interviewer, a senior executive, asked if he wanted to take his position. "Stay humble and you should answer like a junior. Did you really work in a company?" he was asked.
A flurry for insulting questions followed after he failed to give the right answer to one question. "How did you become a developer, you're a disgrace to software development. You are a ChatGPT developer, you don't know anything, you copy code from ChatGPT," the interviewer said.
The techie said he was asked to stay humble and "talk like a junior" when he tried to explain.
"I was very worried, I shifted my weekend plans for this interview only to ruin my weekend and ask myself am I really a developer?" he wrote.
Internet reacts
The post angered techies on Reddit who supported the young professional. "Been there, brother. When I was interviewing after a career break, dude had the audacity to tell me that my life is not worth the cost of my laptop," said one of them.
{{/usCountry}}The post angered techies on Reddit who supported the young professional. "Been there, brother. When I was interviewing after a career break, dude had the audacity to tell me that my life is not worth the cost of my laptop," said one of them.
{{/usCountry}}Another asked, "Why didn't you just leave the interview when he said you are a disgrace to software development? Would standing up and leaving have any long term impacts?"
"That is such an entitled behaviour. I can already assume toxic environment if he is showing such an attitude. I have worked with multiple top executives and most of them don't start showing off their authority like this," said a third user.