The time spent on practising white board test may not be worthy

Re:The time spent on practising white board test may not be ... by Mountain_Skies on Thursday February 15, 2018 @09:29AM (#16384205)

Seems like the more employers complain about the lack of available labor, the more they ratchet up the pointless interview hazing. It's hard to take their claims of 'no one is available' when they're so capricious in tossing away potential employees.

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Re:The time spent on practising white board test may not be ... by cdoxsey on Thursday February 15, 2018 @09:36AM (#16384259)

One thing I've noticed, it's often not the employer at fault but the employees. Engineers reject candidates for extremely pedantic reasons (for example, he used a dict instead of a defaultdict, which some will take as a signal that the developer doesn't know python). I suspect that if you were to interview current employees 50% of them would fail the interview.

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Re:The time spent on practising white board test may not be ... by oceanghost on Thursday February 15, 2018 @10:25AM (#16384721)

The worse a programmer-- the more biting his questions. They'll google some trivia before the meeting to look smart, then reject the candidate to feel good about himself.

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Re:The time spent on practising white board test may not be ... by maxxxxx on Thursday February 15, 2018 @09:42AM (#16384319)

That's my feeling too.

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