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How does being able to implement standard algorithms and solve programming problems screen out "nonconformist people outside of the kool-aid bubble regardless o
by ageek123 9y ago
How does being able to implement standard algorithms and solve programming problems screen out "nonconformist people outside of the kool-aid bubble regardless of their abilities"? These interviews are designed exactly to evaluate ability, in contrast to loosey-goosey "tell me about a time..." culture fit questions where the interviewer can apply their own biases and reverse engineer a justification for whatever hire/no-hire decision they want?
- willtim 9y agoThey appear to be evaluating the ability to learn and apply knowledge of previous published works on imperative algorithms. But, as far as I can tell, they aren't testing for much ability beyond this. Where are the questions for logic, formal methods, semantics, mathematics of program construction, functional programming etc? Such theory is much more useful for designing APIs and gluing components together, something I imagine most Google engineers spend the majority time doing.
- walshemj 9y agoYou mean like the time my CTO said to me concerning the billing system for a telco subsidiary I looked after "this had better be right otherwise we are both out of a job"