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>which would have said a lot more about the author's ability to program It's my understanding that such a portfolio would increase your chances of entering an
by superuser2 10y ago
>which would have said a lot more about the author's ability to program
It's my understanding that such a portfolio would increase your chances of entering an interview pipeline (just as work sample tests are sometimes used as further prerequisites to get into the pipeline), but a company's actual determination of how good you are is always based on the whiteboard, with few if any exceptions.
- pyb 10y agoSpot on. I have an open source portfolio but am always judged instead on my performance during the interview.
- jknoepfler 10y agoOh, absolutely. I'm not questioning the author's decision to study rather than build something. The author's goal was to get a job, and he did the thing you do if you want a job. I've worked as an SDE at Amazon; it was a good experience and I wish the author the best. I just don't believe that the whiteboarding the author did to get the job was a good predictor of engineering ability. I think the wrong actions are being perversely incentivized, and I think that makes us weaker and worse-off as a community of engineers.