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Suppose you have a job for a Kernel hacker. You have John, who has zillions of non-trivial patches applied upstream available, but "flubbed a BFS traversal". An
by prisionif 9y ago
Suppose you have a job for a Kernel hacker. You have John, who has zillions of non-trivial patches applied upstream available, but "flubbed a BFS traversal". And you have Joe, who you haven't heard before but took a whole year doing nothing but traversing graphs and trees to pass your interview. Who would you reject?
- ng12 9y agoWhiteboard interviews are not for hyper specialized roles. They're for companies who get hundreds of applicants every week. Right tool for the job. In this instance if I were John I probably wouldn't want to work for the company anyways because they clearly have no idea how to hire.
- bastijn 9y agoProblem is that most companies copy “the right tool” for all the jobs just because the famous big brother(s) do(es) it.