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Re:Please, Stop the Coding Challenges by hintymad on Friday November 15, 2024 @03:30PM (#42150619)
No argument about it. I was just explaining from the perspective of the companies. Per another thread, the companies usually do not care about false negatives and they recognize that there will be false positives. In the meantime, they get so many resumes so they can afford having false negatives. Case in point, even IBM got tens of thousands of resumes every week in the 2000s.

Not that I can pass the interviews, by the way, and I definitely don't want to prepare for such coding challenges. I'm just trying to explain the phenomena as an observer.

Re:Please, Stop the Coding Challenges by mihaitodor on Friday November 15, 2024 @03:41PM (#42150755)
Sure, and all I'm saying is that it's possible to have a software engineer career without putting yourself through such tests. Yes, it's harder to find decent jobs, but it pains me so much when I see people giving up after years of effort just because they're not aware they can get hired and practice what they enjoy doing without having to pass such tests.