Re:No engineer has ever sued because of constructive post-in...
by etxm on Thursday February 06, 2020 @11:54PM
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Coding “challenges” are absurd.
The gotchas are ridiculous.
If an interviewer googled the question - why do I need to know the answer?
I recently had an interview and I spent _literally_ over an hour trying to figure out the algorithm or a mathematical function to solve it and I finally got to the point that I gave up.
I asked the person what algorithm they used to solve it and they said “brute force” and were expecting nested loops that under real world load would have been O(n^2).
I definitely don’t consider myself an algorithm expert, but my feedback was, and I shit you not, that I didn’t know ruby. I’ve been developing in ruby since 2006.
Anecdotes and all. Our industry’s interview process is flawed AF.
The gotchas are ridiculous.
If an interviewer googled the question - why do I need to know the answer?
I recently had an interview and I spent _literally_ over an hour trying to figure out the algorithm or a mathematical function to solve it and I finally got to the point that I gave up.
I asked the person what algorithm they used to solve it and they said “brute force” and were expecting nested loops that under real world load would have been O(n^2).
I definitely don’t consider myself an algorithm expert, but my feedback was, and I shit you not, that I didn’t know ruby. I’ve been developing in ruby since 2006.
Anecdotes and all. Our industry’s interview process is flawed AF.