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> You don’t get to use to your own IDE, you have an absurdly limited amount of time and you’re in an incredibly high-pressure environment. Ironically, HackerRa
by karterk 11y ago
> You don’t get to use to your own IDE, you have an absurdly limited amount of time and you’re in an incredibly high-pressure environment.
Ironically, HackerRank itself is a part of this problem. All of those are true for HackerRank coding challenges.
As another commenter has pointed out here, HackerRank (and other coding test platforms) want to commoditize the hiring process, but in a way that ensures that candidates are the ones who are doing the all the work. The companies just don't want to spend any time in the interviewing process. It's no wonder that so many companies are struggling to hire good engineers.
If you as a company throw me an online coding challenge as the first interaction, you can be rest assured that you won't be hiring from me again (and many others).
- TranquilMarmot 11y agoMy favorite interviews have been ones that started with the company giving me a choice between a few small programming projects. They usually let you do it in your own time, over a week or so. When you turn it in, they can see how cleanly you write code, how careful you are about edge cases, whether or not you write unit tests, etc. etc. Of course, then they call you in to their office and...... give you a whiteboard interview that lasts 5 hours.