More than on the individual scale, I find it pathetic that the field of software development is at this point. This isn't something a single job applicant can fix; it's a large-scale problem. It's hard not to see the trend in the software industry where developers consistently under-value themselves. Large companies have somehow gotten it into peoples heads that they constantly need to prove themselves. This might be linked to how "impostor syndrome" is constantly a topic in software communities and how programming requires an uncommonly high investment of free-time to learn things.
This isn't OK. It's not pathetic that a single job applicant agrees to BS like this, but it's pathetic that we as a collective are still putting up with such a toxic culture.
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Not pathetic at all. It's upto the candidate if he/she wants to do it or not. Let's not decide on behalf of them.
More than on the individual scale, I find it pathetic that the field of software development is at this point. This isn't something a single job applicant can fix; it's a large-scale problem. It's hard not to see the trend in the software industry where developers consistently under-value themselves. Large companies have somehow gotten it into peoples heads that they constantly need to prove themselves. This might be linked to how "impostor syndrome" is constantly a topic in software communities and how programming requires an uncommonly high investment of free-time to learn things.
This isn't OK. It's not pathetic that a single job applicant agrees to BS like this, but it's pathetic that we as a collective are still putting up with such a toxic culture.