Re:On a Great Interview Question
by activitypea on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @05:41PM
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"A great interview question" for what? The author sings their praises, but never actually explains what this question is good at testing or what makes it worth an interviewer and candidate's time. Results might favor younger or earlier-in-career folks -- okay, why is that a good thing?
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Younger/earlier in career folks are usually cheaper, which companies like.
Though I imagine they could just ask "when was your last algorithms course?" (and possibly where, and what grade you got) and save a lot of time. Or they could just ask "what year did you graduate from (whatever school level)?"
But that wouldn't be as useful for making the candidate "jump through more hoops" and reinforcing compliance as well as status hierarchy - important things at most companies.
And some people may have cheated their way through their algorithms class, so maybe they can be detected if it was recent enough.
For weeding out the people who haven't wasted weeks of their lives studying leetcode problems so they can get a job writing CSS. Duh.
Re:On a Great Interview Question
by bruce343434 on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @09:48PM
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Pretty sure this isn't the kind of question a frontend webdev would face.
It is true that many companies, Google included, have added area-specific questions including some for frontend webdev if I remember correctly.
For making the interview time fun for the interviewer.
Doesn't seem fun.
Re:On a Great Interview Question
by sebzim4500 on Thursday April 13, 2023 @07:48AM
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In my experience, asking leetcode style questions is utterly miserable for the interviewer.
I would stop in an instant if someone could come up with a better option.