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Tech interviews have become a favorite punching bag of various bloggers, and partly for good reason. But even still, who can argue with the results? Some of the
by marcell 11y ago
Tech interviews have become a favorite punching bag of various bloggers, and partly for good reason. But even still, who can argue with the results? Some of the tech industries most successful companies (Google, FB, etc.) and many successful startups use whiteboard coding interviews as their bread and butter, and it seems to work. Maybe it's not as bad as conventional wisdom says it is.
- pyb 11y agoSome unsuccessful companies also use the same format. It makes a lot of sense for Google to place maximum emphasis on whiteboard interviewing, not so much for its lesser competitors. If Google is a more desirable company and they run the same interview process, won't they be hiring mostly people who failed the same interview at Google?
- pklausler 11y agoThe programming world has lots of smart, talented, capable people whose resumes won't get them even a phone interview from Google. Coding interviews deserve their bad reputation, but dammit, there is no better way to learn whether or not a candidate for a programming job understands the really basic concepts than to have them write a little bit of code that can't be written if you lack the aptitude.
- Zikes 11y agoIn an industry with extreme growth like tech has seen in recent decades, it's easy to imagine that many successful companies are successful just as much in spite of their interviews as they are because of them. An example: https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768 https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768