Spend the morning looking through a bunch of project, trying to find which one gets the "streams" request. Since what I thought was doing it was not.
Eventually wrote to a channel on slack, asking if somebody knows. Christian turned out to know: it's not even in our repository, it's a service provided by another team, and the code is another repo, so it's not my fucking business at all. Cool! Updated the jira case, assigned it back to whoever created it, with comments.
Meanwhile another project, where "Joda DateTime" jsonification code compiles properly, I'm going to find what's so good with it. Remember, all the people that knew are gone now. It's a little bit like Twitter in 2023. They could have left a backdoor, nobody would notice.
Had a standup, where I could not connect my headset, so I was just waving and smiling and showing the thumb, like teletubbies or like lapins-cretins. Only later connected this new headset with the silencer and made sure that it all works.
Then there was a demo of Snyk. Is it a Ukrainian word? Could not find it via Google. Anyway, at least a couple of Ukrainians were presenting. But... but, when I asked them if they can demo how it works with Scala code (it analizes the code for security holes), they said they'd do it later - but they did not. They showed some cases in other languages; it's beautiful, but what kind of problem is it when a file is left unclosed - so what? We may be a little bit short of file handles, but it's not Rust anyway, right?
Anyway, a little bit impressed, but I'd see more before judging.
Then there was an interview with John. Although he's John, he's Hispanic (ok, probably Mexican, judging by his accent). We already tried to interview him a couple of weeks ago, but he was busy. Now I think he was not. Also, he turned on the camera, but never looked into it. I guess I had to do the same, look to the side, etc.
Anyway, we just started, I was trying to reformulate the problem I was giving to him last time, when his phone rang, and he started talking to his brother, about their father. I did not have a chance to tell him that yo entiendo español bastante bien, when he hung up, and told me that his brother only calls him once a year, when it's his birthday; I tried to congratulate him, but he said this is not the case.
In short. First I gave him "generate all Java identifiers". He understood the problem, but said that it's too hard for him. Ok, I said, given a 4-letter alphabet, "abcd", generate all possible strings out of this alphabet. No, too hard. Ok, I said, generate all possible 7-letter words out of this alphabet. He wrote "abcd".toSet.combinations.foreach(println) I noticed that what he printed is 4-letter words, I need 7-letter words. He added "efg" to the string. I asked him, if English language has 26 characters, should all English words be 26-character combinations of them? (The fact that a programmer does not know what an alpabet is, for me, is a signal that the guy is an idiot.)
He eventually understood the problem, but said he can't. Too much for him.
Ok, then. Do you have anything in github, any project that you can show? He did not show anything, except for a link. I asked him if he has any question? None.
So I went to his project. It was the standard task from ZIO workshop. And obviously too much for this kind of guy; he just copied it from what John de Goes showed the audience. 8 months ago. That's it.
These people, what do they do, in general? They talk, condescendingly.
Anyway, I wrote to our recruiter, Samantha, all that I wanted to say. But politely.
Well, and I missed the security design meeting that was happening at the same time today! Such a pity.
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