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I wonder if such a scheme would fly in other disciplines of Engineering? Would they hire a person at a Thermal power station, who can dazzle people with fancy L
by 1474295912 10y ago
I wonder if such a scheme would fly in other disciplines of Engineering? Would they hire a person at a Thermal power station, who can dazzle people with fancy Laplace transforms on a white-board?
I recently interviewed for a position at a small Amsterdam based company. They simply asked me to work with them and refactor a part of their code base. It was really interesting and frankly, we all had lots of fun during the 3-4 hour process.
Coming from the USA, it was eye opening to see the ingenuity of this simple way to determine candidates ability. It's such a shame that Stack ranking like HackerRank are being favoured instead of on-job evaluation.
- hartator 10y agoThis is the Amsterdam startup scene, basically an extension of the US startup scene where you can smoke weed. Try France, Spain or Italy that truly have a different culture for tech things, I am not sure if you will like it.
- plandis 10y agoIt's probably pretty easy to obtain pot in SF. Definitely easy in Seattle if you're over 21.
- 1474295912 10y agoIgnoring your snark, I had the similar experience at a Salzburg and Berlin based company. On the other hand there were many companies (Zalando, ProhectA etc) which were copying the shitty model of useless programming puzzles.
- mahyarm 10y agoCracking the coding interview trains you for one interview type. Many places do multiple interview types: 1. Coding challenge <- Your interview was mostly this. - Make an object - Make a mini-app - Fix this code - Refactor this thing 2. Design a program on a whiteboard 3. Algorithmic & Data Structures <- Cracking the coding interview helps here, and is the type many engineers struggle with. 4. Hiring manager interview <- the most subjective People also will bring up if you're an asshole in any of the above interviews.