Re:Ask HN: How to do the bare minimum when not valued at work?
by cheesedoodle on Sunday September 25, 2022 @03:03AM
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I do not see how take home assignments, leet code questions, whiteboard programming and binary tree inversion can fun and fulfilling.
I want to explore potential co-workers, what the employer would value in me, what interesting hard problems they have, what they do for fun, how they celebrate and how they learn, if they actually code or have meetings, what I would be doing, what they need help with, what I can bring.
I think all of the above can be understood in a meeting or two and should take about 2-3 days from meeting to offer and not be stressful :)
Re:Ask HN: How to do the bare minimum when not valued at work?
by GianFabien on Sunday September 25, 2022 @03:44AM
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>take home assignments, leet code questions, whiteboard programming and binary tree inversion
As a candidate you can choose to refuse to engage with such impositions. If it's a dealbreaker for the potential employee, you probably don't want to work there anyway.
Contrary to popular HN belief, the job interviewing process can be fun, interesting and fulfilling. As a job candidate, you get the opportunity to do something almost nobody gets to do: you get to peel back the curtain on a workplace and, as an outsider, see what it’s like! Is it the sort of place you’d enjoy working in? We spend so long in most workplaces that it becomes impossible to see the forest for the trees; or see our potential independently of the potential of our coworkers. Interviewing shakes us out of complacency.
Job searching can be an opportunity to redefine yourself and explore what’s out there. Think of it like travelling to other countries. It can be stressful, but the change of scenery can be delightful if we let ourselves enjoy it.