Re:In defense of coding interviews
by extropy on Sunday May 29, 2022 @07:41AM
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To add some thought to this.
The interview results need to be reasonably repeatable and comparable to assess interviewer skew and bias.
The result is that the interviews themselves inevitably end up being somewhat predicable. And what is predicable you can prepare for, giving you predictably better results.
If you are top 0.1%, sure you will nail them without much prep, but most of the candidates would spend some time preparing.
The interview results need to be reasonably repeatable and comparable to assess interviewer skew and bias.
The result is that the interviews themselves inevitably end up being somewhat predicable. And what is predicable you can prepare for, giving you predictably better results.
If you are top 0.1%, sure you will nail them without much prep, but most of the candidates would spend some time preparing.