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So, you may be right. Perhaps you're great at telling good programmers from bad. But almost no one does the analysis to really know if this is true (false negat
by ammon 11y ago
So, you may be right. Perhaps you're great at telling good programmers from bad. But almost no one does the analysis to really know if this is true (false negatives are the huge unknown). And most interviewers are not as good as you. The consistency between interviewers at the same company is low (we measure this). The consistency between different companies is low. We (interviewers) can do better than this!
- pklausler 11y agoI make no claims about false negative results. But I know that people that I've recommended hiring have basic analytical skills, can correctly code a Boolean predicate with a few connectives in it, and aren't confused by linked data structures. It's not a high bar that I set, and that's kind of my point: ask at least some low-bar questions! You can debate all day about how well candidates have done with the hard questions, but it's pretty easy to know what to do with those who can't cope with something like "do two (x,y,width,height) rectangles intersect or not?".
- ammon 11y agoI misunderstood you. I think we actually agree about this!