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Re:Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering... by ryandrake on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @01:50PM (#16914825)
People are strange. I can totally picture someone who is an experienced senior, a hero under the pressure of a critical production outage, yet whose brain goes into a crash loop when sitting across from someone who has the power to deny them their dream job.

Not claiming to be that hero, but I have personally had those moments where I came out of the interview, and as the disorienting fog of pressure lifted during my drive home I said to myself, "WTF happened to my brain in there? I know that stuff cold!"

EDIT: I think I read this one from a commenter here, but it's so true: We're interviewing people to be music composers, but judging them by their ability to be performance artists.

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Re:Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering... by calcifer on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @02:03PM (#16914980)
Fair enough. I certainly don't claim to know the best interview method ever; simply that, in my experience, starting with trivial coding questions has a higher benefit/risk ratio then other approaches.
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