Ask HN: Anyone else struggling to get a software dev job?
&gt; It&#x27;s like I&#x27;m answering the questions correctly minus one, so I&#x27;m disqualified.<p>That&#x27;s been pretty almost every interview for me. The ones I get further are the ones where I can answer every question right (or are a bit more relaxed, which has been the exception, not the norm). If I get a single question wrong (or struggle somehow) but otherwise did well, I often don&#x27;t get the benefit of the doubt and get passed over.<p>Fastest and most obvious &#x27;getting disqualified for giving one incorrect answer&#x27; was when I was called for a technical phone screen for Facebook (many years ago, probably a decade ago at this point) by someone who sounded like they didn&#x27;t understand anything technical, just had three trivia cards provided by someone on the engineering team with the question and a single term answer.<p>I was told &#x27;correct&#x27; after my first two questions, then after the third question, I answered it in a general sense but without using the term that was apparently printed on their card, was told &quot;Wrong, the answer is blah, thank you for your time.&quot; And I got a rejection email a few days later. I was only asked those three questions, nothing more.<p>I don&#x27;t remember what the answer was anymore, but something like &quot;toll booth messenging&quot; something like that, it was for an iOS position, I was a lead developer of a small team and had released a half dozen games and apps on the app store already, including one I developed from scratch[1]. Still quite proud of a platforming game called Tracklapse and wish the company was still around and the game still on the store[2].<p>I don&#x27;t really do iOS development much anymore, except working on a Swift game for a while that I eventually abandoned (working on something cross-platform now), so I don&#x27;t really remember what the answer was anymore. A quick google search didn&#x27;t bring up anything obvious.<p>[1]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;uy08ohBLGhE" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;uy08ohBLGhE</a>
[2]: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;BJ3NNLnKPdQ" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;youtu.be&#x2F;BJ3NNLnKPdQ</a>