Re:Technical interview performance is kind of arbitrary
by illicium on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @04:01PM
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There's more to being a productive programmer than knowing the semantics of a language.
Someone who has been programming for a while but is learning a new language will have a ramp-up period when their code is ugly or unidiomatic, and they will take longer to write it, but it will capture the correct algorithms and abstractions. Compare that to someone who is inexperienced and writes a pile of exponential-time spaghetti that is slow and unmaintainable in any language.
Re:Technical interview performance is kind of arbitrary
by RogerL on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @04:05PM
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Yes, and code reviews and other mature practices will get the person over that hump very quickly. Anyone can point you to the 'PEP8' of your language of choice.
Someone who has been programming for a while but is learning a new language will have a ramp-up period when their code is ugly or unidiomatic, and they will take longer to write it, but it will capture the correct algorithms and abstractions. Compare that to someone who is inexperienced and writes a pile of exponential-time spaghetti that is slow and unmaintainable in any language.