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Re:Senior devs. Is anyone else insulted by coding exams? by rmah on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @12:12PM (#30617067)
Um, not to sound like an ass but how is being asked to dig into the things on your resume a surprise?
Re:Senior devs. Is anyone else insulted by coding exams? by seba_dos1 on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @12:31PM (#30617430)
Every single thing on it? I've worked with dozens of technologies across multiple fields in my career and I'm still in my (late) twenties, so there's probably more to come. I don't think I could be well prepared for every single question about my past that could come up during an interview. I once got surprised with a question about "the story that led to" discovering a CVE that's attributed to me, for example. In an asynchronous chat that would be a very fun question to answer, but not in a real-time conversation. Playing a detective trying to reconstruct your own memories clue by clue isn't compatible with keeping the interview going.

Nevertheless, I can be prepared on what I was working on during my time at company X, but a question like "what I liked/disliked the most" could still put me off track if I haven't thought about it before. I just don't know without a longer analysis.

Re:Senior devs. Is anyone else insulted by coding exams? by grumple on Thursday March 10, 2022 @04:31PM (#30632761)
I've actually prepared a document with common interview questions / answers / examples of work to talk about, which I typically review before an interview and keep open in my browser while I'm doing video interviews. I think it helps, you might find it to be a useful exercise.