Senior Engineer

[@ledgekindred]

Lo it is written.... Thou shalt NOT have two such silverbacks working at the same locale, lest they catch scent of each other and FIGHT to the death. Thou shalt ALLOW such ancient ones two weeks off per year to REFRESH microcode and firmware. If thou'st wish for a bountiful harvest, thou SHALT provide the ancient ones with terminals and keyboards mechanical. ABOVE ALL - thou shalt NOT ask the revered for their secrets, for doing so shalt DAMN you to knowledge of the kind you wish not to know.

[@groovyMysterioso]

You sound like YOU could tell us some stories! :D

[@flawns]

400 years of experince? Everyone in HR "he meets the requirment for entry level position"

[@GanzaCharles]

*Internship

[@caanshumantadavi]

*unpaid

[@shvedas]

@@caanshumantadavi he has to pay for it

[@TheFootballPlaya]

but can he solve 3 billion leetcode problems?

[@river-left4dead2]

But can he do 3 rounds of 4 and a half hour interviews and make a 3000 lines project in a week, after which he probably won't get the job but we're gonna keep the code

[@WernerBrynard]

I love how he taught JavaScript to chimps as a side project, but he doesn't list it on his resume as a programming language. lol

[@hoodaticus]

Because it isn't one...

[@ethankli]

that's the joke lol

[@Zombified-]

@@ethankli then what is it if it's not a programming language?

[@pankaik]

It's a scripting language

[@telecorpse1957]

@@Zombified- A monstrosity

[@davideangella484]

More like a señor engineer, with that moustache.

[@amityisprecious1334]

this comment right here..... *UNDERRATED*

[@juanponcedeleon8617]

Whos here from r/ProgrammingHumor

[@SoulSolDieR7]

Bruh this comment xD

[@asdfg6626]

i dont know why this comment made me crack up sp much

[@chaimweisberg4365]

That's why I clicked on this video. Boy was I disappointed, I expected some serious engineer Chang stuff

[@DjVortex-w]

There are _still_ unix admin gurus from the 70's and 80's out there. If you go to the deepest pits of the most obscure mainframe server rooms out there, and move through the jungle of hanging cables and server racks and computer cabinets... you'll find them there, surrounded by green and yellow glowing dumb terminals all over, a dozen old crusty keyboards (no mouse in sight), and a beard that looks like it has grown to be part of the surrounding cable jungle, still maintaining the top level domain networks and the servers that nobody knows even exist anymore but without which the entirety of the internet would collapse because no data would move between countries.

[@timmy7201]

Hiding from office politics and -know it all management- alpha-office baboons since the 70's, to maintain normal mental health as one of those scarce logical humans in existence... Sounds like a plan to me!

[@heavydirtysoul1491]

you have good imagination :D

[@patrickcameron2950]

I want to believe.

[@Ali-sf7kc]

That sounds like my superior when I was working at IT department.

[@tropingreenhorn]

for real?

[@MrCmon113]

Can't get a job, because I have less than fifty years experience with C#.

[@Sp1derFingers]

I already have 15 years of blazor experience but it doesn't seem to be enough

[@daviddow5591]

@@Sp1derFingers lmao

[@BigPappaAaron]

*E N T R Y L E V E L*

[@vertie2090]

qualifies as a junior, do you even lambda bro?

[@CariagaXIII]

Job Qualification 15 years = xp else over qualified

[@oopserv316]

teaching small pack of primates javascript 😭😭

[@TheWingedLing]

literal code monkeys

[@user-il9qo4qc4n]

JavaScript is a legitimate language you shit lord

[@damarh]

@@user-il9qo4qc4n of course it is.

[@user-il9qo4qc4n]

@@damarh I can't tell if you're being sarcastic

[@Roboprogs]

www - well, I like JS. But the joke is still funny. (Started programming in ‘83, but I’ll take JS over Java or C++ any day)

[@AexisRai]

"I have slain... my enemies." I can't get over this part

[@eds1057]

As he stares past the interviewer, this ungodly being witnesses the multitudes of foes he's slain in his existence as they flash before his eyes. Some peasant in a field, Julius Caesar, a child that stared at him for too long, Franz Ferdinand, Kennedy, a bee. Then he adds the man that commanded him to write a string reversal algorithm to these memories.

[@Roboprogs]

Living the dream 😈

[@GDBOYFilms]

I guarantee he busted out in laughter after that moment

[@zikomo8913]

I completely lost it at "Prepare for DEALLOCATION".

[@vladosononame6376]

That what he did at the end

[@Jombo1]

This is high art

[@MiguelSanchez-jj6ks]

The kind of "high" you get when doing lsd.

[@MotiviqueStudio]

"trying to teach them JavaScript" just about killed me.

[@creeg8303]

"I could tell you some stories. I could tell you some stories." Without fail, every old programmer has said to me some variation of this line.

[@publicalias8172]

Lol if only you knew how true that statement is.. boy I could tell you stories.

[@NoNameAtAll2]

@@publicalias8172 tell me the stories

[@PhilipAlexanderHassialis]

As an engineer of some seniority level (not yet ancient wise one but not a young whippersnapper), boy I do have some IT stories. Funny stories. Horrific stories. Always educational. Or horrifying.

[@nvrp]

adding "boy" at the end of the sentence, might have been a nice touch

[@grieverdreed9124]

He smiled as he recounted on all the interviewers he had vanquished. All of them now locked betwixt a realm more terrifying than hell, and more transcendent than heaven. With his mustache glowing and his eyeglass lenses gleaming, he reclined into the chair that once held his adversary. Under his breath he spoke: "Thank you for interviewing with me. Unfortunately, I'll be considering other options."

[@CaptainCactus]

I hate reading books with a passion but damn was this beautiful storytelling

[@crispygecko7294]

@@CaptainCactus what

[@james-md1cf]

Eloquent

[@timgehrsitz3267]

"I could tell you stories, I could tell you some stories" crACKED me up This is your magnum opus

[@Crazy3lfx]

"I mean 400 years of microsoft experience, that's good. It says here you know COBOL, that is literally impossible."

[@Surtel9]

It says on microsoft though

[@EddSjo]

@@Surtel9 It's a joke. Implying having 400 years of experience in Microsoft software is more plausible than knowing cobol

[@d-rex7043]

@@EddSjo google should have a 'translate' for these people

[@loocheenah]

I have a relative knowing COBOL

[@sauercrowder]

Unless they worked for state/local government

[@steartfires3039]

Typical snr engineer fires hiring manager before he even hires him.

[@Runnable19]

You don't ask a man with that level of seniority to write a "String reversal algorithm".

[@thebaysix]

That's one of the reasons why the interviewer had to be deallocated

[@sk-sm9sh]

@@thebaysix interviewer forgot to ask to make the reversal in-place allocation free and so got garbage collected to make space for the reversed string.

[@StefanoBorini]

You would not believe. We are still asked these stupid questions

[@abrarmahi]

i watch this every night before going to sleep

[@Neonb88]

Underrated comment

[@anirudhrowjee1378]

Deadass just called free() on that interviewer

[@TotalImmort7l]

you used to work at Bytebeam right?

[@bryanenglish7841]

As a Senior Engineer, I find this to be highly accurate.

[@enesb4797]

What is this?

[@StrigWilson]

Do you like your job man?

[@vasyan123]

I don't. He didn't say "it depends" even once in 2 minutes.

[@jeffdegraw9516]

As a future Senior Engineer, I find this to be highly accurate.

[@Happyduderawr]

@@jeffdegraw9516 Have you seen the end of time?

[@darkfire2703]

Well that COBOL experience would come in handy right about now 😂

[@SuPlanu4Ever]

Why?

[@Mr1337Fabulous]

@@SuPlanu4Ever edition.cnn.com/2020/04/08/business/coronavirus-cobol-programmers-new-jersey-trnd/index.html

[@insertoyouroemail]

@@Mr1337Fabulous that's hilarious!

[@kimeg7294]

Cobol demand in 2020, what a time to be alive!

[@doshi050050]

anyone who can code in COBOL knows how to code on high-level languages as well, or at least understand them very easily

[@GoblinHero]

"teaching small pack of primates javascript" Oh you're a university lecturer?

[@coolmanjack1995]

I thought he was going to pop him back into the other chair and say he reversed the strings

[@imranariffin2688]

That'd be nice hahaha

[@devrim-oguz]

Prepare for deallocation

[@pozloadescobar]

That was the joke

[@hulkhan8338]

Plot twist: This interview takes place inside Kurt's head. This video is just an animation of his contemplation on how it would go if he put a halt to teaching JS to a pack of primates for a bit and traveled back in time and applied for a corporate job where he'd be interviewed by a mortal who'd dare to mock his 400 years of MS experience even subtly.

"We're only looking for people with extensive experience but unwilling to give people experience."

[@MrCorrectify]

Thats how senior positions work. Its a problem when they want "Entry level, 4 years experience required"

[@Woodside235]

We want people with experience but are unwilling to pay them a salary matching their experience.

[@Chrisxantixemox]

Is there some sort of secret cabal ceremony where all senior engineers are given their Hawaiian shirt?

[@davebrunkow9194]

Yes

[@rdkap42]

I feel targeted

[@brotnjanin]

Awesome video! Learned 12 coding languages just by looking at it!

[@carlosfagomes]

this channel is criminally underrated. skits are so good that I've watched them multiple times and it's always funny. I'm a sheethead now. keep it up. you're on the right track.

[@ir0n2541]

You know, him sitting in the interviewers seat at the end is a pre-emptive response to the mediocre question of where do you see yourself in 5 years. there is some depth to these skits.

[@abhilashsanap1207]

Underrated comment

[@ska187]

I worked with someone like this back in my fellowship. He was literally a genius. He is a master of C.

[@imt3206]

What algorithms did he work on?

[@Titere05]

Did he have a moustache though

[@vectoralphaSec]

@@Titere05 Only the real geniuses have mustaches. Just like Albert Einstein.

[@antonc27]

"- So, finally we found someone to process our unemployments claims... - Too bad he doesn't know how to reverse a string."

[@livinglifeleona]

It's the way he continues to avoid eye contact until the "I have slain my enemies" part for me. 🤣🤣😆

[@ska187]

When HR asks for years of experience for a certain language that is bigger than how long the language has been alive.

[@Levio100]

Are we reversing the original string or creating a whole new one? Legit panicking here, where was the warm-up question!?

[@JackLe1127]

I think you need to reverse it in place

[@andrewcernek8794]

In case you're serious, primitive types are immutable (in most if not all? languages) so reversing it in place is impossible. ;)

[@genericgorilla]

@@andrewcernek8794 pretty sure string is not a primitive on c and sepples, dood

[@r4pids]

Start Declare all the variables ( integer and character type ) Enter the string to be reversed Find out the length of string Swap the position of array element using loop Store the swapped position Print the reversed string as console output Deallocate the Interviewer. Stop

[@r4pids]

@@andrewcernek8794 Management do not compute that answer. Cause that how management doooo....

[@OmegAtlAnt]

The way he nods and smiles while saying “I could tell you some stories” is Hollywood level

[@SaadAhmed3000]

no matter how many times i see this. the sound effect at 1:02 always makes me giggle like a toddler.

[@e2rqey]

I've seen this video at least 20 times. I've read this comment 5 times, i know exactly when its coming, and i still can't not laugh at it

[@RafaCoringaProducoes]

It sounds similar to the sound effect in the ISNOUGOLD ps1 game i guess, if someone is wondering.

[@axaxaxaxaxaxax33]

It's the same one used in chuuka ichiban lmfao

[@rudy117041]

As a software engineer, I watch this about once a quarter.

[@AbleBuilders]

Senior engineers are those who have finished many industrial projects end-to-end. Damn, so much to learn from them.

[@andyd568]

The ending was unexpected and hilarious.

[@rattrap777]

This is crawling with south bay energy

[@RebornRelic]

This is my favorite channel on youtube, I discovered it through this video and have never watched a video so many times in my life. I showed my friends and they all love this channel too(we are all CS undergrads). If I am gloomy at all, this video instantly lifts my spirits(as does slaying my enemies with my trained pack of Capuchin monkeys). I have a software engineer interview for an internship this week and you can bet your bottom dollar that I will be using the techniques shown in this video. Thank you and godspeed Krazam.

[@KRAZAM]

thank you and remember to feed the capuchins the bones of your enemies

[@modolief]

Yup, definitely goes on replay

[@IAmNumber4000]

"Why don't you go up to the whiteboard..." _Enemy detected. Enemy slain._

[@n0isyturtle]

I've slain..... my enemies

[@cyberbiosecurity]

I even started getting terrified of the upcoming mustache beam of deallocation when watching this for the 25th time while being sober.

[@mikeruchington4882]

No no 400 years of experience sounds about right. He’s just multithreading.

[@surajzala912]

I've been cackling with laughter, would honestly watch a feature-length film with these characters, it's like some alternate engineer who fits into the universe of Kyle Kingsbury's Coding Interview series of stories

[@LeonDerczynski]

the only possible reaction to asking for a string reversal algorithm

[@johannes5219]

Thanks, KZbin recommendations!

[@korolario]

man you're a delightful actor, I make catarsis every day re'watching your videos over again, cant stop laughing like the first time, you couldnt have nailed this a better way, the edition, the sounds, my god, of course the other video Microservices is like, perfection.

[@divinecomedian2]

At the end I was expecting "king in the castle, king in the castle"

[@SaadAhmed3000]

that goddam sound effect at 1:03 kills me everytime. what genius edited this!?

[@nikkola84]

It sounds like it comes from city hunter the anime, but yeah it is genius

[@darrynjacobs8550]

@@nikkola84 Nope, heroes of might and magic 3

[@randomaf513]

The same guy that deallocates his enemies with thought

[@misterrodger]

Interviewer: "Kurt Schoenfeld? I'm Neil." Programmer: "Mm" Open with a banger.

[@chromosome24]

These guys are always the ones to tell some goddamn, back-in-nam story as shit is hitting the fan, where the answer to all your problems is embedded somewhere in said story.

[@IAmNumber4000]

Every time I see another 20 hour FreeCodeCamp video pop up on my feed I think of this video

[@dev1lm4n63]

This guy was working at Microsoft before there was Microsoft *Respect* 😤☝️

[@CoryMck]

You think LISP is outdated? Someone should tell that to Autodesk.

[@ericl8743]

There's Autodesk inventor 2019...

[@CoryMck]

@@ericl8743 AutoCAD used LISP and let's you run LISP files.

[@ericl8743]

Oh I see what you mean. Thanks. I wrote my text while driving. I don't even remember texting to to be honest lol

[@CoryMck]

@@ericl8743 Lol, I can relate to the forgetting part, but it really isn't safe to watch videos or read comments while driving.

[@ericl8743]

@@CoryMck yeah you're right. It's a bad habit. I just hate being stuck in traffic for hours

[@paulunga]

I like this, because it's only about 10% "sooo relatable", unlike most software developer sketches.

[@BizerkPixel]

wish i could deallocate my enemies like that

[@akimbocs]

I have not actually laughed this hard at a video in a long time. Great job

[@jackdelamotte1638]

“Ancient beyond mortal comprehension” on the resume 😭😭

[@Webberjo]

For some reason when he said to write a string reversal algorithm, I suddenly started thinking of the most overly-complex way to do it.

[@leootp22]

"The further back I peer in history the farther into the future I can see." If you haven't slain a few enemies as a software engineer, what the fuck are you even doing?

[@crystal_pepsi]

1:50 is that a sample from Ballmer

[@KRAZAM]

good ear

[@crystal_pepsi]

@@KRAZAM ayy nice it was burned into my memory from youtube mp3. Hilarious video btw!

[@gonzogriff]

Amazing

[@howzeman]

_The further I appear in history, the farther into the future I can see._

[@justtheoldlove]

I peer, not appear.

[@pandincus]

I love this video so much. It's absolutely twisted and that makes it all the better. This is like, Tim and Eric meets Twin Peaks meets The IT Crowd. Keep up the great work.

[@meregaming1770]

That ending had me laughing uncontrollably 😂😂😂.

[@timothymoore2197]

wtf did I watch so well made

[@Portablesounds]

Best part is I know this is in Silicon Valley because they have Philz Coffee.

[@bostwiek]

Can confirm, this is absolutely how I got my job as a software engineer

[@leootp22]

By...doing garbage collection on your interviewer? You malloc'd in and then free'd? The ethical and philosophical questions raised are going to cause a stack-you-know-what

[@GrafMKristo]

Looks like this is how it feels on the 100% point of Dunning-Kruger curve.

[@GerbenWijnja]

0:25 "knitting enthusiast" XD

[@CobusGreyling]

"I've domesticated a small pack of primates, currently trying to teach them javascript" might be the funniest line I've heard in several years

[@DarcyWhyte]

I sat there blank looking at the screen when the skit ended. Trying to figure out what happened. Then I hit subscribe.

[@d6wave]

"i can tell you some stories" sums it up enough.

[@AvivMakesRobots]

The best answer to any interview question: "I can tell you stories... I can tell you some stories."

[@vincentmarquez3096]

Can we have more of Kurt Shoenfeld? Maybe show him working in a fun hip startup? Or working at Oracle with Ross Elephant?

[@radicaltrafficcone8284]

this is the sort of thing employers expect for junior developers

[@AtlasTheShiba]

0:10 Great social distancing

[@suponjubobu5536]

0:54 and the sound effects are the best part IMO. So perfect.

[@alextl97]

HR: "We need 5 years of experience on this technology that hasn't been invented yet"

[@QuantEdgeHub]

imagine saying "i've slain my enemies" with a straight face in an interview

[@swilwerth]

String reversal algorithm. Understandable deallocation.

[@setheheart4911]

The old school Window's alert box was perfect.

[@jamesmiller2521]

1:50 when they say that R is outdated and everybody using Python now

[@gustavsjokvist2668]

i swear to god all senior engineers are wizards

[@cryp0g00n4]

I am so happy to rediscover this channel. I had no idea I had literally walked by a gold mine all those years ago. Subbed for life.

[@Goaterd]

My theory is that the mustache is actually the one in control.

[@chaswards]

This is one of the funniest videos I've watched in a while. The moustache effect was perfect 👌

[@Zaechus]

Experience in Ancient Babylonian, Sanskrit. lol I'm dead

[@modolief]

This video, the one and only, the classic

[@mariusbancila5627]

String reversal algorithm. I think this was a real interview, actually...

[@richardohana8898]

I cannot stop coming back to this. This is a seriously beautiful thing.

[@afreshpineapple]

Idk why but the "hm" at the start always cracks me up

[@CRAZEERUSKEE]

The number of times I've rewatched this is extremely unhealthy...and I'm ok with that

[@farhanhubble]

Hats off to you guys! You have rofling all over the place

[@olivierbegassat851]

this is gold ^^

[@luizdebem]

I like to travel a little bit

[@christophertoombs373]

The abrupt randomness of end has me cracking up

[@ParabulaMan]

omfg i died at the glitched intro, ive worked with some guys that i could have sworn were androids.

[@alexgoncharov6430]

“Do you know anything that’s been used in the last 10 years” - well, Perl is not ancient. Given when the video was released, Perl was somewhat relevant in “the last 10 years” back then

[@groovyMysterioso]

I think I speak for everyone when I say "We want more GLITCH!"

[@joso5681]

Ok... I kind of missed the g=π² part...