Hiring without whiteboards

Re:Hiring without whiteboards by meowlicious on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @08:57AM (#13875740)

I am interested in this too. I recently failed netflix code review because I used java 7 instead of java 8 which apparently showed them I don't keep up with new technology (even tough the question asked me to pick any language on jvm.) Other reasons given to me were that i used maven instead of gradle.

https://medium.com/@meowlicious99/my-software-engineer-inter...

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Re:Hiring without whiteboards by mikulas_florek on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @09:25AM (#13875890)

I guess you can consider yourself lucky, I would not want to work for such company.

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Re:Hiring without whiteboards by hocuspocus on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @11:26AM (#13876735)

> all my open source code is written in java 8 for him to look

That completely defeats the purpose of a small, self-contained assignment like the one you were given. And your code isn't even in Java 7 (no diamonds), I think it was a legitimate remark.

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Re:Hiring without whiteboards by meowlicious on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @11:40AM (#13876842)

You think it would be helpful to let the candidates know what they would be evaluated for in the coding assignment.

I would have dazzled them with java 8 if I knew I was going to be rejected a based on that :D

I was under the impression that this was the usual algorithm/data structure/complexity rigamarole, not show us latest language features.

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Re:Hiring without whiteboards by bogomipz on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @09:24PM (#13881577)

Yes this patently absurd. I am guessing you weren't allowed to discuss your code or choices with anyone either correct?

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Re:Hiring without whiteboards by sterex on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @11:07AM (#13876595)

Yikes! They'd probably bury me if I used COBOL!

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