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As a "Product Programmer" myself, I find it highly ironic that despite the fact that there is apparently more demand for product-focused developers than technic
by lewisl9029 11y ago
As a "Product Programmer" myself, I find it highly ironic that despite the fact that there is apparently more demand for product-focused developers than technical-focused ones, the interview process for most startups is overwhelmingly technical-focused.
If you're looking for product-focused developers, please consider tuning your interview process to evaluate whether or not candidates can build great products, rather than following the herd and grilling them on obscure algorithms and data-structure problems, which has a rather high chance of weeding out the kinds of product-focused developers that you're looking for in the first place.
- tdaltonc 11y agoMaybe you only remember the super technical parts because the product-focused parts were effortless for you.
- hawkice 11y agoI've been in interviews where over half the questions were legit non-programming puzzles, and the rest were algorithms. Most interviews are heavy on tool-specific questions. I've had only two interviews where I've been asked to fix a bug in code and in those circumstances I wasn't able to actually run the code. Getting even remotely close to building something would be so supremely memorable that I would have a hard time believing I built an entire thing before I noticed.