Re:Hiring Is Broken
by 0xFACEFEED on Thursday January 17, 2019 @04:24PM
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THANK YOU. 16 years I've been writing code and I can count on one hand the people I've met who realize this. I get a little emotional about it because I've seen so many exceptional programmers crumble in interviews with trivia questions.
If an interviewer wants to test problem solving skills with a BFS, no problem:
- Draw a tree on the whiteboard (interviewers writing the whiteboard is highly undervalued; it calms the candidate)
- Explain what a BFS is. It's easy to draw out each step in a BFS algorithm.
- Ask the candidate to write some pseudo code that implements it.
If an interviewer wants to test problem solving skills with a BFS, no problem:
- Draw a tree on the whiteboard (interviewers writing the whiteboard is highly undervalued; it calms the candidate)
- Explain what a BFS is. It's easy to draw out each step in a BFS algorithm.
- Ask the candidate to write some pseudo code that implements it.