Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering Role

Re:Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering... by dfjliasjg on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @03:50PM (#16915954)

When did an entire industry of people get pre-judged as lying? Don’t we exist in a country where the default assumption is innocence not guilt?

Fucking LOL. I demand tests not to see whether you can write a for loop, my wife has an art degree and can do that. I demand tests to see if you bothered to comment your code, use version control, use tests, and actually put in some custom logic instead of boilerplate CRUD. There are so many people who fail those basic tasks, its unreal. Plus, programmers SUCK at interviews, so why even bother giving it any weight? Show me talent in the homework and I'll hire you.

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Re:Things I Learned from a Job Hunt for a Senior Engineering... by ngngngng on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @04:16PM (#16916143)

Maybe it's still enough of an employers market for you to get away with this, but I have enough interviews that I don't have to put up with long homework assignments or horribly buggy leetcode tests. The company I most want to work at usually ends up being the one that doesn't use these annoying interview methods.

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