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Re:Caltech's CS interview prep course by yibg on Sunday February 27, 2022 @07:31PM (#30494553)
Seems like the consensus is that engineering interview is broken, but no one has come up with a better method? You’d think with the war to get talent these days if there was a better way to screen for candidates companies would use it.
Re:Caltech's CS interview prep course by whimsicalism on Sunday February 27, 2022 @08:03PM (#30494835)
> Seems like the consensus is that engineering interview is broken, but no one has come up with a better method?

These sort of "consensus"-es appear for most sorts of screening processes where the majority of people are screened out. See: any form of standardized testing.

Re:Caltech's CS interview prep course by DrBenCarson on Sunday February 27, 2022 @10:25PM (#30496028)
Self-plug but I think I have an answer

https://haig.io/post/most-underrated-software-skillset/