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Why are we suddenly inundated with "If companies interviewed * the way they interview programmers" posts?

by IceyEC 9y ago

sleepychu 9y ago
because the community is super frustrated with the state of interviewing.
- throwthis12 9y ago
  > because a bunch of people who take free online javascript classes are frustrated they're being asked about algorithms and data structures they deem irrelevant fixed
- kaybe 9y ago
  It's quite interesting how different submissions on the front page build on each other and there is a sort of meta-conversation happening with the flow of articles. I think AI or whatever you want to call it is not up to it yet, but it would be an interesting investigation for in a few years.
stevekemp 9y ago
Because people copy things that have been recently popular, as a way of boosting their own audiences. "Curated list of XXX" was popular a while back, after that it was "Machine learning applied to XXX", and this week it is recruitment. Next week it will be something else.
partiallogic 9y ago
This is the first one I’ve seen in response to the translator one and would love to see more.
- lolptdr 9y ago
  https://medium.freecodecamp.com/welcome-to-the-software-interview-ee673bc5ef6 https://medium.freecodecamp.com/welcome-to-the-software-inte... I believe this is the first of its kind. Enjoy.
ubernostrum 9y ago
Because sometimes people need to see the typical practices lampooned through another field's criteria before they can realize how far off the rails their own field has gotten. See all the people who always pop up in interviewing threads to say that this crap really is necessary in order to test for knowledge of "fundamentals" (defined as a small set of algorithm questions that candidates now memorize the answers to out of books with little or no actual understanding, since all they have to do is regurgitate them, not understand them) and to weed out people who "can't code" (defined as people who haven't memorized the set of stock answers from the books).

Why are we suddenly inundated with "If companies interviewed * the way they interview programmers" posts?

by IceyEC 9y ago

Why are we suddenly inundated with "If companies interviewed * the way they interview programmers" posts?

sleepychu 9y ago

because the community is super frustrated with the state of interviewing.

throwthis12 9y ago
> because a bunch of people who take free online javascript classes are frustrated they're being asked about algorithms and data structures they deem irrelevant fixed
kaybe 9y ago
It's quite interesting how different submissions on the front page build on each other and there is a sort of meta-conversation happening with the flow of articles. I think AI or whatever you want to call it is not up to it yet, but it would be an interesting investigation for in a few years.

stevekemp 9y ago

Because people copy things that have been recently popular, as a way of boosting their own audiences. "Curated list of XXX" was popular a while back, after that it was "Machine learning applied to XXX", and this week it is recruitment. Next week it will be something else.

partiallogic 9y ago

This is the first one I’ve seen in response to the translator one and would love to see more.

lolptdr 9y ago
https://medium.freecodecamp.com/welcome-to-the-software-interview-ee673bc5ef6 https://medium.freecodecamp.com/welcome-to-the-software-inte... I believe this is the first of its kind. Enjoy.

ubernostrum 9y ago

Because sometimes people need to see the typical practices lampooned through another field's criteria before they can realize how far off the rails their own field has gotten. See all the people who always pop up in interviewing threads to say that this crap really is necessary in order to test for knowledge of "fundamentals" (defined as a small set of algorithm questions that candidates now memorize the answers to out of books with little or no actual understanding, since all they have to do is regurgitate them, not understand them) and to weed out people who "can't code" (defined as people who haven't memorized the set of stock answers from the books).