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Re:Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills by tester756 on Friday August 01, 2025 @10:52AM (#44757661)
Isnt betting fired more humiliating? like 10x more?
Re:Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills by zwnow on Friday August 01, 2025 @01:36PM (#44759836)
Not if you went through 100 of these unnecessary interview processes solely due to small companies copying big tech where half of their dev team couldn't complete their hiring process.
Re:Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skills by seadan83 on Friday August 01, 2025 @04:06PM (#44761821)
The humiliation is the least of it IMO. When interviewing, let's say you've got to leads. You get hired and tell the test to pound sand. Companies (I've found) never like that. It's a burned bridge (despite the strong hire signal of getting hired).

Now, a month later - fired - it's worse than not having worked at all. Good luck reaching back out and starting over from scratch with your best options now off the table.