How to pass a programming interview (2016)

Re:How to pass a programming interview (2016) by joeax on Saturday March 09, 2019 @11:49AM (#19346991)

Neither does this famous guy [1]. All these interviews do is waste a lot of time and generate a lot of false negatives.

You can practice all you want to get better, but no one in the corporate world is saying "I need you to code bubble sort, and I need in the next 45 minutes" and then proceeds to stand over your shoulder the entire time.

[1] https://twitter.com/dhh/status/834146806594433025

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Re:How to pass a programming interview (2016) by bootlooped on Saturday March 09, 2019 @04:05PM (#19348472)

For big companies that have a ton of applicants, the false-negative rate probably doesn't matter all that much. They need a quick way to narrow the field.

As for wasting a lot of time, what more reliable method is there that takes less time than a leetcode-style problem? Surely there are more reliable methods, they probably don't take 30 minutes or less though.

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