Dear Startups: stop asking me math puzzles to figure out if I can code

Re:Dear Startups: stop asking me math puzzles to figure out ... by progx on Monday October 21, 2013 @03:44AM (#6583979)

Because they don't know you, you don't have a well known name, they don't know what you can and if it is true.

E.g. if somebody hire John Carmack (ID Software), nobody will let him do some math test or ask him trivial programming questions.

But you are not John Carmack ;-)

It is like in every other job: if you are not a rockstar you are nobody.

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Re:Dear Startups: stop asking me math puzzles to figure out ... by josephlord on Monday October 21, 2013 @10:30AM (#6585758)

Did you even read the article?

The author was not saying she was above simple coding tests but that she was an inexperienced programmer who was GOOD at the maths puzzles and got the job then struggled and the interviewer's assessment of her software development ability would have been better with some software related questions.

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Re:Dear Startups: stop asking me math puzzles to figure out ... by progx on Tuesday October 22, 2013 @05:01AM (#6590554)

Experienced or not, if you have a known name, nobody ask you silly questions. Thats all what i want to say.

We life in a world of casting shows, now we (the programmers) are in that shows too. They run only in companies.

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Re:Dear Startups: stop asking me math puzzles to figure out ... by keithgabryelski on Monday October 21, 2013 @09:02AM (#6585155)

There is a job at Google to ask legendary-coders coding questions.

It is reasonable.

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Re:Dear Startups: stop asking me math puzzles to figure out ... by progx on Monday October 21, 2013 @07:03AM (#6584640)

I know: the truth hurts.

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