Re:How to Interview Engineers
by jjav on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @04:48AM
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> Most arguments I've seen claiming the incompetence of senior engineers are circular.
Exactly!
If someone has been implementing and delivering products for years/decades and they "fail" a whiteboard puzzle, which is more likely?
A: The whiteboard puzzle doesn't actually measure anything correlated to delivering products.
B: They can't actually develop anything, despite having repeatedly done so.
I want to hire the people who can develop and deliver products, not the whiteboard puzzle specialists because I've never been at a company where solving whiteboard puzzles is something we do as part of the business.
Exactly!
If someone has been implementing and delivering products for years/decades and they "fail" a whiteboard puzzle, which is more likely?
A: The whiteboard puzzle doesn't actually measure anything correlated to delivering products.
B: They can't actually develop anything, despite having repeatedly done so.
I want to hire the people who can develop and deliver products, not the whiteboard puzzle specialists because I've never been at a company where solving whiteboard puzzles is something we do as part of the business.