dekiteshim
Resident Eritrean | Ye's strongest soldier
On the train back home from my university interview/assessment.
The first part of the day was my actual technical interview. Smashed it out of the park tbh. Just a lot of maths and problem solving. They literally asked me a question which was just a repurposed leetcode problem I solved like a week ago LOL.
The second part of the day involved a team project with other engineering applicants of different disciplines. I won’t go into the specifics of what the project was about but it was relatively straightforward. You needed to be creative but it was doable. Unfortunately, I was the only male in my group. Now that’s not inherently bad but in a group situation where disputes will arise, the women will always side with each other. My group members must have been on the left side of the IQ bell curve because for some reason they couldn’t grasp what was being asked of us. Whenever I actually provided pragmatic and well thought ideas, I was shut down. We were being asked to provide a purely technological solution to a problem and these idiots were treating it like an undergraduate Marketing class ffs
Luckily, the group was observed at all times by one of the assessors and I could see they took many notes when I spoke in comparison to my female counterparts and seemed to show subtle signs of agreement. In fact, I might have helped that I had such peabrain counterparts since the intellectual mogging I provided may have given me a halo effect.
I’m still not 100% about this though since the raw odds of getting into my course are 1/8
The first part of the day was my actual technical interview. Smashed it out of the park tbh. Just a lot of maths and problem solving. They literally asked me a question which was just a repurposed leetcode problem I solved like a week ago LOL.
The second part of the day involved a team project with other engineering applicants of different disciplines. I won’t go into the specifics of what the project was about but it was relatively straightforward. You needed to be creative but it was doable. Unfortunately, I was the only male in my group. Now that’s not inherently bad but in a group situation where disputes will arise, the women will always side with each other. My group members must have been on the left side of the IQ bell curve because for some reason they couldn’t grasp what was being asked of us. Whenever I actually provided pragmatic and well thought ideas, I was shut down. We were being asked to provide a purely technological solution to a problem and these idiots were treating it like an undergraduate Marketing class ffs
Luckily, the group was observed at all times by one of the assessors and I could see they took many notes when I spoke in comparison to my female counterparts and seemed to show subtle signs of agreement. In fact, I might have helped that I had such peabrain counterparts since the intellectual mogging I provided may have given me a halo effect.
I’m still not 100% about this though since the raw odds of getting into my course are 1/8
