The ummah is in need of tons of their own versions of services and demands, that are outside of the influence of parties that are against our interests.
I get that it's easy to do, but please. I beg you. Enough prayer widgets, apps, extensions, etc. We have such a vibrant and rich community of this apps, your innovation is not needed here.
Use your talents to find better pastures.
Posting here since I haven't applied in a long while so I might be completely out of the blue here - needed a pulse check to see if I'm crazy or not.
I'm a 8+ year experienced dev and I've got a pretty loaded full stack background, JS/TS frameworks, monorepos, micro frontend, .NET, native app dev you name it. More recently I've been doing a lot of backend work in .NET and haven't touched JS in a year and some change.
Recently was testing the waters to another company for a Senior Frontend Engineer role and they got me in for a screening with their India team (a bit confusing, but it's fine). They didn't really give me any context aside from it would be a technical discussion. At my level I came prepared to talk about high level concepts - tradeoffs of SSR, SSG, CSR. Micro frontend optimization and bundling techniques, how to handle data etc.
They had me join the interview in IST (so 1:45am for me) and the interviewer effectively asked me to do a leetcode easy problem in JS exclusively. I let him know that as per my resume I hadn't coded in JS in a year so my brain was still in C# mode- plus no one had informed me that I'd be doing technical problems in JS so I didn't have time to take a refresher, but I solved the problem no issue after getting up to speed on the semantics of things like what X and Y JS method calls.
He moved on to asking me about typing and interfaces and whatnot in TS, completely fine - but then asked me if I can show him the sematic implementation of both. I once again told him, hey there man I haven't touched the specifics of this in a year so I may have a misplaced semi colon or brace, but I can tell you why they're different and the approach and rules for each.
He moved on to asking me if I use testing and how should I write them for the problem I just solved - I pointed all of this out and even called out a really specific edge case as we were talking that his testing set wouldn't have caught. He goes "does your solution solve for this?", I pause for a second and let him know "no because it's not listed as a criteria, but I can add that functionality via X pattern match and we're golden".
He was super vague and non helpful, and then he let me go.
I'm honestly just a little...confused? I expected a conversation going over higher level concepts and implementation and not the minutia of the language. Also would have been nice to been told that was what I was doing prior.
I feel like I'm a seasoned writer applying to a new newspaper and my first interview wasn't talking over how I'd craft an article or digging, but more so "what are the exact rules around using a semicolon in MLA".
I can certainly get that information and know where to get it, but knowing it off hand exactly seems a tad ridiculous.
Is this...normal? Because if so I can go refresh my grammar knowledge, but would've been nice to know.