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No offense, but I'm skeptical of responses like this. If you need a few hours or days to "warm up and grasp" an interview question like fizz buzz or card shuff
by jlarocco 11y ago
No offense, but I'm skeptical of responses like this. If you need a few hours or days to "warm up and grasp" an interview question like fizz buzz or card shuffling, then you're just not up to snuff.
For every good developer offended by coding in an interview, there are 50 idiots who can't code, who are using that as an excuse to con their way into jobs they're not qualified for. IMO, it's an acceptable trade off.
If you're that awesome you wouldn't be going through the usual interview process, anyway.
- Retric 11y agoI find people that quickly do fuzbuzz type problems to be worse on average. The only way you can validate your interview assumptions is to randomly higher people you would have passed on. You could compare how important you think X is vs. how predictive it was for on the job skills, but few people actually onboard enough people to get good data.
- vikiomega9 11y agoSometimes I've noticed I just don't "get" the problem being posed. Either it's because of ESL or well I just don't focus very well sometimes. It takes me a bit to figure out what's being asked and at that point it's usually very easy for me to go think about the solution and assumptions and such. But it does happen.