I guess it works well for people unemployed with nothing else to do, no family, lots of time.
Everyone else, this sucks!
Re:How to Pass a Programming Interview
by buzzdenver on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @06:27PM
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Interviewing does take time. Most people will be able to spare an hour to find a new job.
Re:How to Pass a Programming Interview
by kylequest on Wednesday March 09, 2016 @12:01AM
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So you are saying you don't spend any time preparing for your interviews :-)
Why don't companies offer it as an option?
"Hey here's a fizz buzz question, if you feel confident answering it now go for it, otherwise we'd be just as happy for you to do it in a take-home fashion?"
Homework projects don't work some cases, when developers come with a refined copy/pasted code or code by another programmer. Better way is to go through the previous code that developer has written or go through the code written by other programmers to know the capability of the programmer to understand different code patterns
> Better way is to go through the previous code that developer has written or go through the code written by other programmers to know the capability of the programmer to understand different code patterns
Doesn't this have exactly the same problems as homework projects? You can still copy and paste or plagiarize.
I helped a group within my organization with their hiring process recently, and we had pretty good success with assigning a short "take-home" exercise, vs. trying to haze them with a programming problem over a google hangout interview. A problem focusing on a small part of what that group does, but scoped to be doable with 1-2 hours of work.