Apple Developer Documentation Is Missing

Re:Apple Developer Documentation Is Missing by arcticbull on Monday October 28, 2019 @01:56PM (#21379617)

It's a game. You win, you get a job. It's worth spending a few weeks and just banging out BSTs every night until you're good at it. Engineers with years of industry experience tend to fall flat in these interviews because they haven't written BSTs in years and don't think they should have to in an interview. It's not about should, though, it's about whether you want the job. Change the system from the inside.

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Re:Apple Developer Documentation Is Missing by pjmlp on Monday October 28, 2019 @02:11PM (#21379785)

Thankfully in many regions we still have the choice not to go through hiring games.

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Re:Apple Developer Documentation Is Missing by arcticbull on Monday October 28, 2019 @03:11PM (#21380435)

I agree with you that in an ideal world there'd be a way for you to demonstrate your prowess without playing these games. However, in the real world, I want a job, I'm going to play? It's not like I don't solve hard engineering puzzles for fun on my own time anyways. Framing matters a lot!

Here's what I like about interviews:

(1) I get to talk about myself and how great I am without people rolling their eyes at me.

(2) I get to solve a fun puzzle with:

(2)(a) A defined answer.

(2)(b) That I never have to maintain.

(2)(c) With a potential financial windfall at the end.

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Re:Apple Developer Documentation Is Missing by verletx64 on Monday October 28, 2019 @05:26PM (#21381888)

Seriously though, in Europe the Algorithmic style interview is not the norm, by and large

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Re:Apple Developer Documentation Is Missing by arcticbull on Monday October 28, 2019 @05:34PM (#21381961)

Interesting, what's the process there like?

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Re:Apple Developer Documentation Is Missing by pjmlp on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @03:26AM (#21384845)

Plain old style interview, you get through HR, get a couple of interview rounds with people from different departments, discuss with them several subjects somehow related to work, positive and negative experiences across your career, what would you do if X happens,....

If you happen to do coding exercises at all, they are just basic tasks like implement a linked list data structure, count the number of words on a file and such.

Answer some trivia about the language you are supposed to use, e.g. when should you use a struct in C#.

Luckly only startups over here are somehow into SV hiring culture, which still leaves plenty of others with job offers available.

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