The current situation on the IT job market is hard. So you are lucky when a recruiter on LinkedIn reaches out to you having a suitable match for a new position based on your prior experience. It might not be what it seems at a first glance.
An interview that asks me to execute 3rd party code on my machine is an instant no from me. They can give me a dataset in plain text and ask me to do something with it in a certain language, but running a whole code base is sketch as hell.
I mean… absolutely fucking not on my baremetal. But at the same time, I wouldn’t really care about executing it in an appropriately sandboxed VM or container. And maybe that’s part of the test.
An interview that asks me to execute 3rd party code on my machine is an instant no from me. They can give me a dataset in plain text and ask me to do something with it in a certain language, but running a whole code base is sketch as hell.
I mean… absolutely fucking not on my baremetal. But at the same time, I wouldn’t really care about executing it in an appropriately sandboxed VM or container. And maybe that’s part of the test.
Why wouldn’t you be concerned about VM or container escapes?