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Re:Harder programming questions do a worse job of predicting... by alboy on Monday February 18, 2019 @03:56PM (#19194362)
One could argue that CS undergraduate degrees are perfectly suited for this purpose. FAANG & Co don't seem to care for that. You've successfully passed a few dozen exams at MIT or Stanford? Well, let's make the reasonable assumption that you have no clue about algorithms and data structures and start with our third whiteboarding session, that should be a way better proxy for your knowledge.
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Re:Harder programming questions do a worse job of predicting... by erik_seaberg on Monday February 18, 2019 @05:14PM (#19194976)
Those incentives are misaligned. Not every law school grad can pass the bar.
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Re:Harder programming questions do a worse job of predicting... by alboy on Monday February 18, 2019 @06:06PM (#19195306)
They may very well be, but is the quality of signal truly worse than that which an interviewer can extract from a few hours of your writing code on the board?
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Re:Harder programming questions do a worse job of predicting... by erik_seaberg on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @03:32PM (#19211682)
There are people with degrees who can't code. I'd prefer we don't hire them, so we ask for coding.
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