Re:“I've had to relearn coding to get through the new interv...
by randomswede on Monday December 07, 2020 @03:47AM
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As an ex-Googler who's done a fair bit of interviewing, my bar for "will I use this coding question" is to look at the problem statement, do a from-fresh implementation in a suitable language, and if it took me more than 7 minutes, it is not suitable for a 45-minute interview slot (I would expect the candidate to have a solution in ~20 minutes, then maybe 10 minutes of follow-up questions, then flip to "do you have any questions for me").
I thus gave the candidates roughly three times longer than I needed to solve the problem myself, which should pretty much account for the interview situation.
In my experience technical interview questions are usually way harder than they need to be. I don't agree with getting rid of HackerRank style filters entirely because they save you a ton of time with candidates who just can't code at all (or candidates that think they aren't applying for a coding job). But the questions should definitely err on the easy side.