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Your opinion is based on the assumption that your interview process yielded an accurate assessment of competence.
by meggar 9y ago
Your opinion is based on the assumption that your interview process yielded an accurate assessment of competence.
- nolemurs 9y agoWell, sure. We're not talking sophisticated things here though. The exercises that I've formed this opinion from were closer to fizz-buzz than to data structures or algorithms questions. If it takes you 20 minutes to code something about as hard as fizz-buzz (on a computer, with internet access), and the code you have at the end is terrible, I feel pretty confident saying you're not an effective engineer.
- linkregister 9y agoYet the Google and Facebook interview questions are decidedly not trivial fizzbuzz problems. They're more on the order of the second midterm of a 300-level algorithms class. This is not stuff that most 10-year engineers have in their heads. I'm not commenting on your company's interview process; I'm merely affirming the earlier poster's claim that there is a serious issue with the Google interview process and its cargo-cult-followed successors (Facebook, et. al.).