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Re:What not to do when giving technical interviews (2014) by mlthoughts2018 on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @09:03AM (#20164092)
Nah, this type of anecdote is overblown, usually by people with a vested interest in keeping leetcode-like interview puzzles as a gatekeeper barrier to hiring and internal advancement.
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Re:What not to do when giving technical interviews (2014) by mieseratte on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @10:37AM (#20165089)
Well that’s just a false dichotomy. One can provide a coding challenge that isn’t a lame “gotcha” puzzle.
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Re:What not to do when giving technical interviews (2014) by mlthoughts2018 on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @10:46AM (#20165173)
In theory sure, it just doesn’t happen in tech interviewing though.
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Re:What not to do when giving technical interviews (2014) by mieseratte on Friday June 14, 2019 @08:08AM (#20182283)
Well, anecdotally, it absolutely does happen in tech interviewing, and I'm saying that both as an interviewer and someone presently interviewing for a job.

Sounds like you've found yourself in an interviewing rut.

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Re:What not to do when giving technical interviews (2014) by mlthoughts2018 on Saturday June 15, 2019 @02:31PM (#20191370)
No, been in the same job happily for a while & not currently interviewing. I am also an engineering manager and happy to be out of the hell of rank and file engineering interviewing in my career.

It’s just a widespread, deep culture problem in tech interviewing. The questions and evaluation procedures are set up to be pedantic oneupsmanship trivia, and are not rooted in psychologically healthy realities of the way people work or demonstrate skill or communication patterns.

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Re:What not to do when giving technical interviews (2014) by baud147258 on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @09:43AM (#20164494)
Fizzbuzz is a leetcode puzzle?
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Re:What not to do when giving technical interviews (2014) by mlthoughts2018 on Wednesday June 12, 2019 @10:45AM (#20165170)
Huh?
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