Re:I have over 500 commits in Rails and I failed the Shopify...
by jen20 on Sunday February 06, 2022 @02:36PM
(#30236124)
The problem is not that such interviews are “not easy”, it’s that they provide little useful indication of ability.
If I had someone with 500 commits in the primary framework in use (trivially verifiable - and they weren’t all fixing typos in comments or similar), I would advocate for not even asking them code related questions. The absolute worst case is it turns out they can’t do anything, and they get fired. One must at least take some benefit from work being primarily at-will in the US, after all.
By contrast I’ve seen many people who excel at “leetcode” who are functionally useless at anything beyond that style of coding, and for whom normal work is “outside their comfort zone”.
If I had someone with 500 commits in the primary framework in use (trivially verifiable - and they weren’t all fixing typos in comments or similar), I would advocate for not even asking them code related questions. The absolute worst case is it turns out they can’t do anything, and they get fired. One must at least take some benefit from work being primarily at-will in the US, after all.
By contrast I’ve seen many people who excel at “leetcode” who are functionally useless at anything beyond that style of coding, and for whom normal work is “outside their comfort zone”.