Re:Ask HN: How to prepare for technical interviews?
by mrcold on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @04:10AM
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Does having more than two jobs in the past count as extensive testing? If two other companies like yours decided I'm skilled and paid me for it, why do you assume I'm not? Who must perform these tests to determine competency?
Re:Ask HN: How to prepare for technical interviews?
by valdiorn on Tuesday March 10, 2015 @05:01AM
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Did you get laid off at your last job? How did you perform? I can ask you, will you give me an unbiased answer? I can call you reference, that person you hand-picked to be the least likely person to give you a bad review. Is that guaranteed to be an unbiased answer? No.
The only unbiased answer is you, showing me, right here, right now what you can and cannot do.
To be a practicing lawyer, you are already tested extensively on hypothetical -- imaginary -- legal problems. If programmers had similar professional requirements, then general competency testing as part of an interview process would probably be less popular because that would be essentially outsourced to the credentialing association.