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Whiteboard programming isn't very relevant to day-to-day programming. Raising kids is doubtlessly even less relevant.
by jpttsn 10y ago
Whiteboard programming isn't very relevant to day-to-day programming.
Raising kids is doubtlessly even less relevant.
- FullMtlAlcoholc 10y ago> Raising kids is doubtlessly even less relevant. That's a bit dismissive. From personal experience, if one isn't a complete failure, raising kids to a satisfactory degree would exercise one's managerial and time management muscles, not to mention their ability to work under pressure/sleep deprivation. Parents of infants
- kafkaesq 10y agoRaising kids is doubtlessly even less relevant. Right. But if done successfully (or even just satisfactorily -- given how difficult of a job it truly is), at least has some correlation with character, and general cognitive fortitude. And hence -- unlike the ability to withstand repeating whiteboarding sessions -- has at least some correlation with actual fitness vis-a-vis the role being applied for.
- dagw 10y ago"So you seem to have the experience we're looking for and our engineers seem impressed with your interview. Just one small final thing, a formality really, could you bring your daughter in tomorrow so we can talk to her and see if she's been brought up right?" If whiteboard testing is frowned upon, I imagine testing a candidates kids would be doubly frowned upon.
- kafkaesq 10y agoNo worries; I was responding rhetorically to a rhetorical questions. I wasn't suggestion that it actually be used as a hiring filter.
- yellowapple 10y agoI reckon that'll change significantly as AI grows increasingly advanced and complex.