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At some jobs we make the libraries you use to solve those problems. These interview questions test very basic CS concepts and many of them are essentially just
by canttestthis 10y ago
At some jobs we make the libraries you use to solve those problems. These interview questions test very basic CS concepts and many of them are essentially just extremely watered down versions of real life problems. I can teach a dev how to Google for libraries, I can't teach him basic CS concepts. I would much rather hire for the latter.
In fact this whole thread makes me uncomfortable. I wouldn't want to work with anyone who gets nervous when told to reverse a linked list.
- collyw 10y agoSure, but those jobs are few and far between. If you are indeed writing that sort of code, then it makes complete sense to test people on that, but the vast majority of jobs using this style of testing are not.
- canttestthis 10y agoEven for other jobs, using this style of interviews reduces your false-positive rate, because any style of interviewing thats good enough for the sort of software that this tests for is going to be good enough for them.