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But then the interviewer trots out the old adage "but we're not testing your ability to reverse strings. I want to see how you approach solving problems." And y
by lj3 10y ago
But then the interviewer trots out the old adage "but we're not testing your ability to reverse strings. I want to see how you approach solving problems." And yet, a wrong answer is an almost guaranteed no hire. I can't tell if these people believe their own bullshit or if I'm being lied to my face.
- tluyben2 10y agoI don't know many of these interviewers (I myself interview but I would never ask people to do these silly tests) but I spoken to one of them from Boston a while ago at a party and he said he just has this list of questions and they need to be answered correct; he himself would not even be able to recognise if the person was attacking the problem right or wrong but he says 'I want to see how you approach solving problems' as that is what he has been taught. So in my 1 point empirical research I would say you are being lied to.
- lj3 10y agoWell, now I know! thanks. :)
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- kamaal 10y ago"I want to see how you approach solving problems"- Is almost always bullshit. One person I knew at work had a question he used to always ask in interviews. One day while discussing this I asked him to show me some working code for his question. He struggles for a while then gives up(Note, this is his own question). Then he repeats the same trite - "We are just testing their approach". And I was like "Oh sure, Their approach towards something whose answer you don't even know, to evaluate against."
- falcolas 10y ago> I want to see how you approach solving problems. Which correlates nicely to "You didn't solve it the way I would have, so you're obviously wrong."