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Re:Employers bow to tech workers in hottest job market since... by baby on Sunday August 01, 2021 @05:53PM (#28030435)
The programming interviews are getting ridiculous. It is really an immense pain to go through an interview for a senior developer role nowadays, and it is super arbitrary. I did like 5 at the end of last year and I was just sooo tired. Got mixed results as well even when I felt like I understood the problem better than some interviewers. On the other hand, I got two companies that gave me take home assignments which both took me an entire day to complete, but it was fun as hell at least!

BTW I also did a developer interview at FB to transition role (after writing code for two years at FB) and failed. It’s just really random.

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Re:Employers bow to tech workers in hottest job market since... by brailsafe on Sunday August 01, 2021 @07:40PM (#28031335)
It's bad for any level, not just senior. I literally haven't received an offer in over a year of varying interviewing, because no matter what I'm applying to, I get hit with a hackerrank test that compares me to probably anyone in terms of simply whether or not I solved every test case. Others will put me through 5 interviews before deciding to not hire. I can't support myself financially with programming skill as a result (in Canada). It was bad 5 years ago, it's worse now.
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Re:Employers bow to tech workers in hottest job market since... by cxx on Sunday August 01, 2021 @06:28PM (#28030766)
Yeah I agree, also with the home assignments. Personally I prefer home assignments infinitely more than leetcode interviews and they are much more realistic to what you do on the job. The problem is that some companies are doing both, first the assignment and if they like it the standard 4-8 interviews.
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