Thompson Refuses C Proficiency Test

Although Thompson is now 80 years old, he most recently worked at Google, where he co-developed Go... although his hiring caused problems: he refused to take the company's mandatory C proficiency test, on the feeble pretext that he designed the C language.

A humorous text screenshot claims that Thompson refused Google’s mandatory C proficiency test because he supposedly designed the C language. The punchline is the exaggerated excuse and the irony of requiring a programming-language creator to prove his competence. It is shared as a reaction to absurd workplace rules, bureaucratic tests, or overconfident technical claims.

• @gentoomemes / 3334 2023-03-23