Re:Code Tests are pointless – doubly so for DevRel
by solraph on Monday February 14, 2022 @09:00PM
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My post was written from direct experience of having run and being on multiple interviews over the last decade. It's not a one-off thing. It's a depressing majority of applicants.
In the spirit of constructive discussion, I have several thoughts about why other people may not see this. One, it's quite possible this is a very locale specific phenomena.
Secondly, I have tended to work in - and therefore interview people for - very mainstream languages, I suspect the experience of someone who works in/interviews for Haskell would be very different.
Finally, it's entirely possible that most of the applicants are by definition, the ones who find it difficult to get and/or hold on to a job, and that throws out the experience of the recruiting process, and that means they make up a disproportionate number of applicants, despite being a minority of programmers in the workplace.
In the spirit of constructive discussion, I have several thoughts about why other people may not see this. One, it's quite possible this is a very locale specific phenomena.
Secondly, I have tended to work in - and therefore interview people for - very mainstream languages, I suspect the experience of someone who works in/interviews for Haskell would be very different.
Finally, it's entirely possible that most of the applicants are by definition, the ones who find it difficult to get and/or hold on to a job, and that throws out the experience of the recruiting process, and that means they make up a disproportionate number of applicants, despite being a minority of programmers in the workplace.