Re:How I didn't become a SoundClouder
by eropple on Monday July 10, 2017 @10:11PM
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> My recommendation to you ... is to do paired programming tests with candidates
As someone who, without really bullshitting, is in box #2 of what you describe--this is a great recommendation. Coding tests are largely a joke. I test fine, but I have somewhere north of a hundred thousand lines of open-sourced code out there. I can write code. You're not helping me learn anything as I help you learn whether you want to hire me with your (probably bad) coding test.
But we both benefit from pair programming. Because it's fun, it's usually more thought-provoking, and it teaches me about a company and a person I might run into again in the future.
> When someone requests one, they tend to be a crap company with poor software dev practices and a huge noisy open floor plan.
...also this. Coding tests are the warehoused, wholesale way to hire developers. You probably deserve to at least be handled retail.
As someone who, without really bullshitting, is in box #2 of what you describe--this is a great recommendation. Coding tests are largely a joke. I test fine, but I have somewhere north of a hundred thousand lines of open-sourced code out there. I can write code. You're not helping me learn anything as I help you learn whether you want to hire me with your (probably bad) coding test.
But we both benefit from pair programming. Because it's fun, it's usually more thought-provoking, and it teaches me about a company and a person I might run into again in the future.
> When someone requests one, they tend to be a crap company with poor software dev practices and a huge noisy open floor plan.
...also this. Coding tests are the warehoused, wholesale way to hire developers. You probably deserve to at least be handled retail.