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Re:In defense of coding interviews by vletal on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @12:05AM (#31566008)
> Even if I refuse to interview people as part of my job, will I really thrive in there? I'm certain this process permeates in one form or another throughout the company culture in various internal management, decisionmaking and promotion processes, but that's a separate discussion.

Are you sure you want to work at a FAANG company? You sure you would be happy? What motivates you to try so hard?

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Re:In defense of coding interviews by mihaitodor on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @07:02AM (#31568133)
Bingo! I now know I don't, but it took me years to come to this conclusion. When I started this career, everyone around was telling me that getting into one of these companies will lead to meaningful and challenging work which is complete nonsense. I now know that a large number of people who join these companies are unable to find any meaningful work there.

Anyhow, several years ago, I added a disclaimer to my public profile on LinkedIn which states that I refuse any form of live / timed coding assessments during interviews and I'm not going to make any exceptions on it.

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