Re:How I Interview
by mixmastamyk on Friday December 18, 2015 @04:20PM
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> We get candidates (HFT) with a CS degree from MIT or something, with 15+ years of industry C++ experience as a senior software engineer...
Sounds like your expectations are part of the problem.
Why do you expect someone 15 years out of university, working in the now enormously wide software space to have your pet questions memorized? C++ is well known for being too big and needing to be subset(-ed). And, why not realize that such a person could become an expert in those questions in less than an hour of googling and reading?
The bigger problem is that companies are not willing to invest even four hours of training into employees!
Sounds like your expectations are part of the problem.
Why do you expect someone 15 years out of university, working in the now enormously wide software space to have your pet questions memorized? C++ is well known for being too big and needing to be subset(-ed). And, why not realize that such a person could become an expert in those questions in less than an hour of googling and reading?
The bigger problem is that companies are not willing to invest even four hours of training into employees!