Re:Senior devs. Is anyone else insulted by coding exams?
by sasquatch_9 on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @01:06PM
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>The businesses that use coding exams have the second-rate (and lower) developers writing code.
So FAANG has second-rate developers?
I would say the opposite anywhere that does not test has second-rate developers as they let anyone who can talk the talk in.
E.g. I have seen senior 5+ years tenured engineers at non-FAANG companies with weak coding tests, write O(N^2) code in production; then I took a look at it and reduce it to O(N) and N was not small it was pushing 50,000 and was only expected to grow...
So FAANG has second-rate developers?
I would say the opposite anywhere that does not test has second-rate developers as they let anyone who can talk the talk in.
E.g. I have seen senior 5+ years tenured engineers at non-FAANG companies with weak coding tests, write O(N^2) code in production; then I took a look at it and reduce it to O(N) and N was not small it was pushing 50,000 and was only expected to grow...