Re:The tech interview prep industry
by usrbinbash on Monday April 04, 2022 @07:02AM
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> There’s a significant number of candidates, who despite their CS degrees and fancy GPAs, can’t solve basic programming problems. And then there are the senior or principal engineer candidates who can talk a big game but can’t write fizz buzz.
The problem is, I am not trying to hire people to write FizzBuzz.
If I am looking for someone to compose a concerto for violin and lyra from scratch, but the question I ask them to determine their qualifications is: "Here is a whiteboard and a pen but you don't get a ruler, draw me a pentatonic scale freehanded in 30 seconds or less, and I will evaluate how similar it is to the picture here in this book on musical theory.", how nice will the resulting concerto sound?
The problem is, I am not trying to hire people to write FizzBuzz.
If I am looking for someone to compose a concerto for violin and lyra from scratch, but the question I ask them to determine their qualifications is: "Here is a whiteboard and a pen but you don't get a ruler, draw me a pentatonic scale freehanded in 30 seconds or less, and I will evaluate how similar it is to the picture here in this book on musical theory.", how nice will the resulting concerto sound?