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I disagree with this. Coding interviews are great. The interviewer needs to realise though that they're not there to be an adversary or a judge, but to help the
by DrJokepu 11y ago
I disagree with this. Coding interviews are great. The interviewer needs to realise though that they're not there to be an adversary or a judge, but to help the candidate demonstrate their skills, to help the candidate get the job.
- toolz 11y agoI feel like all you're saying is 'Coding interviews could be great' not 'coding interviews are great'.
- NhanH 11y agoCoding interviews are great if the interviewers are perfectly rational and omnipotent agents. They need to be able to perceive the job, derives the set of abilities that is necessary for it taking into account and predicting future changes. Asking the set of questions that will subsequently narrow down the candidate's ability (while understand the answer, obviously). All the while gauging candidate's "social skill" and "team work" ability, among with any and all trending required characteristics there are. Oh, and you got an hour to do that. You have 5 interviewers going through the same candidate? Fine, they need to be one-fifth omnipotent. Good luck with that.
- fooster 11y agoDepends what you mean. If you mean google style whiteboarding coding interviews are great I'm here to tell you they are not. I've never been payed to write code on a whiteboard, have you?
- 1stranger 11y agoThat's the theory but it doesn't work in practice. Interviewing other developers is a skill and it's a skill that most developers don't have.