Re:A Wretched Google Interview Experience
by kamaal on Wednesday August 21, 2013 @12:16AM
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>>As for the calculus interview, that sounds like fair game. PMs are supposed to have some PM interviews and some SWE interviews, and math is a perfectly acceptable area to ask SWE candidates.
Lets leave the managers alone for a while.
When exactly was the last time, you as a programmer used 'calculus' while writing programs.
Your statement shows everything wrong with hiring programmers these days. Which is to demand expertise in totally irrelevant areas, and when the persons fails to the test declare him incapable of doing his actual job.
And then when you hire people experts in irrelevant areas not being able to do the job, start complaining that good programmers are difficult to hire.
How will we find good programmers when we are not even looking out for them?
Lets leave the managers alone for a while.
When exactly was the last time, you as a programmer used 'calculus' while writing programs.
Your statement shows everything wrong with hiring programmers these days. Which is to demand expertise in totally irrelevant areas, and when the persons fails to the test declare him incapable of doing his actual job.
And then when you hire people experts in irrelevant areas not being able to do the job, start complaining that good programmers are difficult to hire.
How will we find good programmers when we are not even looking out for them?