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It sounds like you don't live in the Valley. I interviewed for jobs recently, and I studied my ass off for 6+ weeks, every night doing different coding questio

• noarchy 11y ago
  >It sounds like you don't live in the Valley. Indeed, I don't. I even asked, in one of my replies, if this was a "Valley" thing. I'm ok with being asked to code or write things out during interviews - that is, if it is pertinent to the job I'll be performing. If I'm expected to do complex DB queries, for example, it is reasonable to see if I can write one. If I've been doing it for years, I should be able to handle such a task. >I interviewed for jobs recently, and I studied my ass off for 6+ weeks, every night doing different coding questions, and spending weekends learning new things and coding algorithms for 6-8 hrs a a day. But this... this seems more appropriate in the context of a university exam than a job in real-world software development. As I said in elsewhere in this thread, I can understand asking such questions of a prospective junior developer, as they won't have much experience, and the CS 101 material may be fresher in their mind.
  • steven2012 11y ago
    It doesn't matter what you think is appropriate. This is the reality in Silicon Valley and probably other places now too. If you tried to interview here without preparing you would be eaten alive.