Re:My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable
by sanderjd on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @03:58PM
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Yeah all my most interesting problems are solved by carefully reading logs and the code that wrote them, stepping through code in a debugger, working on small repros, and eventually hitting some eureka, often after a couple days of dedicated effort. This would be a poor interview technique, though it would have great signal.
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Re:My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable
by derivagral on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @05:30PM
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A web startup I joined years ago hired this way. The "main" technical interview was pairing with one of the devs to fix a toy broken service. In my case, this went fullstack from client bugs to backend bugs to sql/orm bugs as well as "make a page to show a list of things". They weren't so formal as to have a coded up modular interview system or anything, but I always enjoyed that one the most because it was closest to the job.