got fired for not using AI fast enough. using Interview Coder for my next loop and idgaf
ok venting. 6 YOE frontend dev. last company hired me specifically to clean up the mess they shipped, they had vibe-coded their entire app with Claude. every page had a different design, no system, no design reference, just whatever the model spat out that week. I unified the UI, fixed half the broken flows, did real work.
last week they fired me. reason? I was "slow." should've been closing more tickets because we have AI. I should've been generating, not writing. didn't matter that I was the one making the slop coherent in the first place.
so I'm back on the market. and this time I'm using Interview Coder for every single loop.
the same companies that fired me for not running enough Claude generations are going to put me on a Zoom with a leetcode hard and 35 minutes on the clock and pretend that's a fair test of engineering. fine. they want speed, I'll give them speed. they want AI output, I'll give them AI output. the entire job is babysitting an LLM anyway, why would I pretend I can invert a BST in my head with no notes.
the funny part is every recruiter screen now opens with the "we use AI heavily, we move fast" speech, and then the same company will rescind your offer if they catch you using a tool to prep. you can't have it both ways.
one loop down already. used IC for the system design and one of the coding rounds. got the verbal yesterday.
might post a full breakdown if anyone wants it.