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Re:Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering... by mixmastamyk on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @01:27PM (#16914640)
Last paragraph is a hidden gem, should be pinned at the top of the page. Perhaps a blog post? :D
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Re:Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering... by muddyrivers on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @09:28PM (#16918061)
I agree. On the other hand, we engineers need to look at ourselves in the mirror. After all, we engineers conduct the technical interview.

I was involved in hundreds of tech interviews in the past several years. So many times in discussing a candidate's performance, I found some of the interviewers' questions and comments were unrealistic, even preposterous. In one case, an interviewer gave a hard dynamic programming question. We were a tech company and had very good engineers. Our products and our technologies, however, rarely need dynamic programming skills of this difficult level. I couldn't bear it. So I asked, "who think he can solve this problem on the whiteboard in 40 minutes right now?" Dead silence.

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Re:Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering... by liaocs2008 on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @03:34PM (#16915837)
Agree. The true story is actually sad.
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