Re:In defense of coding interviews
by swat535 on Sunday May 29, 2022 @02:01PM
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This is really not rocket science. We have implemented in our company.
Step 1: An initial phone interview with the candidate regarding technologies of choice, war stories, etc
Step 2: A small coding exercise that is similar to what we work on. The candidate can solve this on their own time and email us the solution.
Step 3: Review the solution together and ask questions about their methods.
Step 4: Meet the boss & offer.
The coding exercise is only sent _after_ the initial phone call, so we don't waste their time or ours.
The only problem here is that we can't virtue signal that we follow FANG whiteboard interviews and pretend that everyone working at the company can invert a Trie Tree in a 30 minute coding session..
Step 1: An initial phone interview with the candidate regarding technologies of choice, war stories, etc
Step 2: A small coding exercise that is similar to what we work on. The candidate can solve this on their own time and email us the solution.
Step 3: Review the solution together and ask questions about their methods.
Step 4: Meet the boss & offer.
The coding exercise is only sent _after_ the initial phone call, so we don't waste their time or ours.
The only problem here is that we can't virtue signal that we follow FANG whiteboard interviews and pretend that everyone working at the company can invert a Trie Tree in a 30 minute coding session..