Re:Cracking the Coding Interview Tutorial
by mahyarm on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @07:01PM
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Cracking the coding interview trains you for one interview type. Many places do multiple interview types:
1. Coding challenge <- Your interview was mostly this.
- Make an object
- Make a mini-app
- Fix this code
- Refactor this thing
2. Design a program on a whiteboard
3. Algorithmic & Data Structures <- Cracking the coding interview helps here, and is the type many engineers struggle with.
4. Hiring manager interview <- the most subjective
People also will bring up if you're an asshole in any of the above interviews.
Re:Cracking the Coding Interview Tutorial
by hartator on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @06:13PM
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This is the Amsterdam startup scene, basically an extension of the US startup scene where you can smoke weed. Try France, Spain or Italy that truly have a different culture for tech things, I am not sure if you will like it.
Re:Cracking the Coding Interview Tutorial
by 1474295912 on Wednesday September 28, 2016 @01:53AM
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Ignoring your snark, I had the similar experience at a Salzburg and Berlin based company. On the other hand there were many companies (Zalando, ProhectA etc) which were copying the shitty model of useless programming puzzles.
I recently interviewed for a position at a small Amsterdam based company. They simply asked me to work with them and refactor a part of their code base. It was really interesting and frankly, we all had lots of fun during the 3-4 hour process.
Coming from the USA, it was eye opening to see the ingenuity of this simple way to determine candidates ability. It's such a shame that Stack ranking like HackerRank are being favoured instead of on-job evaluation.