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> If you just recite problems from Cracking the Coding Interview, you have pretty limited insight into the candidate's abilities. I agree with this. I tell com
by gaylemcd 9y ago
> If you just recite problems from Cracking the Coding Interview, you have pretty limited insight into the candidate's abilities.
I agree with this. I tell companies to not ask questions from Cracking the Coding Interview. But that doesn't mean those style of interviews are fundamentally broken. It's just stupid to ask questions that candidates are likely to know.
- jerrylives 9y agoIndeed, I don't write off whiteboard interviewing altogether - if you know exactly what you are hiring for, it can be very helpful to have e.g. a systems engineer write out some C code or go through tree problems. The issue comes in that a lot of people aren't entirely sure what they are hiring for, just that they need a warm body who can code to some arbitrary ability. That's why I always make sure to ask the interviewer what the burning problems are and what kind of action they are looking for on Day One.