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Wasn't this in reaction to the story that Homeland Security had asked the question to a programmer entering the US? I don't know how this was extrapolated to a
by kijeda 10y ago
Wasn't this in reaction to the story that Homeland Security had asked the question to a programmer entering the US? I don't know how this was extrapolated to a broken job interview process.
- jackmott 10y agothat was joke
- catshirt 10y agocan you share a link?
- kijeda 10y agohttp://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-advice/travellers-stories/aussies-weird-immigration-interview-in-the-us/news-story/8222c65d2f12e6691ef27c9b1753e821 http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-advice/travellers-stori... There have been others come to light since, but this was two weeks ago.
- jackmott 10y agowhat others have come to light? I apologize if these stories have been confirmed, but at the moment I am not believing it.
- sp332 10y agohttps://twitter.com/cyberomin/status/835888786462625792?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/cyberomin/status/835888786462625792?ref_...
- k__ 10y agoI thought DHH posted this before the guy who had border problems. But well, I only had one strange interview where I had to programm Tetris and failed. In most interviews I just got asked, if I could do the job...
- bagels 10y agoDo you have a reference? This would be interesting to read about.
- squarefoot 10y agoI believe it's in reaction to the malpractice of hiring programmers according to their results on a purely theoretical exam at the whiteboard, and sometimes disregarding completely their precedent works, published projects, etc. I'm sure there are other examples predating it, but the following I believe is the 1st account of a Google interview gone bad for someone who very likely didn't deserve to get kicked in the butt (Max Howell, author of Homebrew for MacOS). https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768 https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/608682016205344768