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Nearly every interview is not realistic at all. At least it's better than whiteboarding.

• moonshinefe 10y ago
  Fair point, but I'd at least expect an original assignment to be submitted later that isn't like in thousands of data structure programming book out there. Well, maybe expect isn't the right word, but I'd never run my interviews with such trivial requests that don't reflect what the actual work will be (hopefully they aren't writing LLs from scratch, anyway).
  • holydude 10y ago
    Do you have an example what would you ask on an interview ? I am just curious.
    • moonshinefe 10y ago
      Sure. If it's say a web application, I'd invite them to install the framework(s) / libs used and to implement a basic feature that could actually be used in an application they'd be working on. Nothing super complicated, but something that wasn't "reinvent the wheel that's googled easily". I'm not aware of many major programming languages these days that are missing linked lists or similar data structs. I'd also pay them for their time, regardless if they got the job.
• crdoconnor 10y ago
  The best interviews are those that make an attempt to be realistic rather than assuming correlation between ability and knowledge of some of the more rarely used textbook knowledge.