Re:Harder programming questions do a worse job of predicting...
by eecsninja on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @07:28PM
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No, but they certainly have no use for SWEs thinking outside the box in ways beyond engineering work. Such as recognizing that interviews don't work well to predict ability and success. We engineers are supposed to shut up and conduct interviews and build interview tools, not wonder if the whole thing is a case of the emperor has no clothes.
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Re:Harder programming questions do a worse job of predicting...
by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday February 19, 2019 @07:34PM
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That isn't really unprecedent through out the history of work. There are, have been, and will be many fads where the emperor was eventually found to be wearing no clothes. This particular interviewing style is just one of many, and is already on the way out as people learn they aren't getting very far by cargo culting Google (e.g. see Stripe and Microsoft's new interview process).