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In a recent incident, a Bengaluru techie posted on the social media site Reddit saying she walked out of a job interview when she was asked to 'draw the Indian flag and the Ashok Chakra' using the programming language CSS.
The techie in her post stated that she had expected more advanced questions related to her expertise from her interviewer.
She wrote, "I have total 10 years of experience in frontend technologies like angular, javascript, typescript, html, CSS etc. Generally at this experience level, people ask more of real-life scenarios based questions or coding skills to test logical thinking or some advance concepts."
The techie was extremely disappointed when she was asked to draw the Indian flag using CSS by the interviewer after being asked a bunch of "theoretical questions" on the programming language.
"I questioned the interviewer about why such tasks were being asked, to which she replied it was a way to test my knowledge," the techie wrote in her post.
"I drew it anyways. I find this question completely absurd. Then she asked me to make Ashoka chakra in that. I made it. Then she asked me to draw spikes inside the Ashok chakra. There I lost it," she added.
Upon sharing her entire experience, she posed a question to the Reddit community on whether the interviewers need to refine their approach to hiring experienced professionals, which gathered a lot of reactions, nearly all of them supportive of the woman's decision to walk out.