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I understand your attitude a bit. I have 25 years of experience, and I admit to harboring a little bit of frustration when all that is just shoveled to the side
by markbnj 10y ago
I understand your attitude a bit. I have 25 years of experience, and I admit to harboring a little bit of frustration when all that is just shoveled to the side and they start treating me like I have to prove I know what programming is. If someone were interviewing a doctor for a position at a practice the candidate would probably be just a little miffed to be asked whatever passes for basic knowledge questions in that profession. Of course physicians have all sorts of certifications and licensing and ongoing recertifications, and its much, much harder to get into that profession so outright posers are rare.
So for that reason I don't actually mind proving I can do the work. But I do strongly dislike whiteboard style "do this in five minutes or you're not good enough" interviews. My current company asked me to do a take home project and workalong day. Both were fun and both were compensated and it ended up with an offer, so it's all good.
- shshhdhs 10y agoDoctors prove the prerequisites via their board exams. Coders have no proof of prerequisite knowledge.
- nickpsecurity 10y agoMany have Github's, FOSS contributions, and such with their code in them that can be reviewed. How serious the project was to them will vary. However, I would ask that they tell me which they put real effort into and how. I'd look at it to verify. That's a start as it tell me directly how they code supporting real-world work.
- user5994461 10y agoDo you take it bad when an exercise is to print numbers from 1 to 10 (inclusive)? :D Then repeat, with a function to print numbers from 1 to n (given as argument).