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Re:Green Lumber Fallacy in Software Engineering by riddleronroof on Thursday January 13, 2022 @03:49PM (#29926629)
I bet you have. But how long did you have to solve it? Did you have access to the internet, talking out ideas with your colleagues, coffees? I agree that you can’t simulate real scenario in an interview, but you can also acknowledge that the process is a little cartoonish.
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Re:Green Lumber Fallacy in Software Engineering by caethan on Thursday January 13, 2022 @03:52PM (#29926670)
Interviewees are encouraged to use Google, code on a laptop rather than on a whiteboard, etc. Sadly, I only get an hour to interview people rather than a week. But I have had people complain about "completely unrealistic problems unrelated to the real work" when the problem is something I literally had to solve 3 months ago.
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Re:Green Lumber Fallacy in Software Engineering by jzoch on Thursday January 13, 2022 @04:37PM (#29927230)
To be fair, you could just give them the question ahead of time. Email them 3 days before their interview with the question and say see you soon. That is much closer to actual conditions
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Re:Green Lumber Fallacy in Software Engineering by EdwardDiego on Thursday January 13, 2022 @04:12PM (#29926930)
That sounds far more reasonable.
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