Re:Quitting a New Job
by wvenable on Monday January 04, 2021 @08:31PM
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> After being on the interviewer side myself recently, I think those people just don't realize how hiring actually works.
As an interviewer I've never had to give a coding test and I'm not about to start now. I've had people try and bullshit -- not really on purpose -- but asking specific questions weeds them out easily. Often times they don't even know they're failing the questions.
I have a less-technical manager come in on my meetings and by the end he could spot those people who failed without any knowledge of programming at all.
> Of course there are some edge cases where a great developer would fail a leetcode-style interview, but those exceptions are very rare and only seem to affirm the rule.
I did all this binary tree stuff in University decades ago -- I only have so much brain space and studying all this again is going to push out the interesting stuff I'm working on right now.
As an interviewer I've never had to give a coding test and I'm not about to start now. I've had people try and bullshit -- not really on purpose -- but asking specific questions weeds them out easily. Often times they don't even know they're failing the questions.
I have a less-technical manager come in on my meetings and by the end he could spot those people who failed without any knowledge of programming at all.
> Of course there are some edge cases where a great developer would fail a leetcode-style interview, but those exceptions are very rare and only seem to affirm the rule.
I did all this binary tree stuff in University decades ago -- I only have so much brain space and studying all this again is going to push out the interesting stuff I'm working on right now.