Caltech's CS interview prep course

Re:Caltech's CS interview prep course by samstave on Sunday February 27, 2022 @04:59PM (#30493054)

The next big tech interview craze, I have long thought:

Here is a fucked up environment.

Here are logins for each role.

Here is your team.

Here is your role.

Each of you has a chance at each role. There are three of you. So three challenges.

The environment is experiencing the following symptoms. Diagnose, report, fix.

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Then throw them at some broken stack with admin rights and figure why its broken and fix it.

Create various stack models to throw at teams based on team skill-set.

Never hire individuals. Hire strong individuals who can work in a team.

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Re:Caltech's CS interview prep course by jfrbfbreudh on Sunday February 27, 2022 @06:45PM (#30494120)

I was recently given something like this as a phone screen. I was provided an ip address and some credentials and I was expected to ssh in and get some python scripts working.

I was only given this after passing a difficult HackerRank though.

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Re:Caltech's CS interview prep course by xerox13ster on Sunday February 27, 2022 @06:19PM (#30493886)

I'd kill for something like that. Don't have me create and solve some arbitrary math problem in code syntax, this isn't quiz bowl and work isn't a scholastic decathlon. This is tech, give me broken technology tell me its expected behaviors, give me space to figure out what makes it tick and and I will fix it.

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