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How do you get another job if you've stopped coding? Most jobs I've seen, even in management, still require the interview song and dance.
by base698 9y ago
How do you get another job if you've stopped coding? Most jobs I've seen, even in management, still require the interview song and dance.
- dboreham 9y agoThat doesn't make sense because logically you'd be interviewed by even more senior managers than the position they're hiring for, and hence those people haven't coded in 10 years.
- aalleavitch 9y agoHow long does it take someone to forget fizzbuzz, I wonder...
- bovermyer 9y agoI have never seen fizzbuzz in an interview.
- base698 9y agoOr powersets, or segment trees, DFS. Seen everything in an interview at this point.
- seattle_spring 9y agoAs an EM, if I were asked about a segment tree in an interview for an EM position, it would signal to me that I do not want to work for that company.
- base698 9y agoYeah I think I'm getting in the wrong loops.
- sidlls 9y agoCan't speak for the parent to your comment, but in my case my intent is to continue as a Manager and seek promotion to Senior Manager/Director as soon as it is feasible. My policy is this: in this industry if the job description includes anything that hints at coding it's not a management job. It's an Individual Contributor role with some people-management thrown in, and one (coding) or the other (managing) is likely to suffer.
- cbm-vic-20 9y agoAccording to the "HN Who's Hiring" monthly post, nobody hires Engineering Managers. At least, not the kind of companies that post to that thread.
- sidlls 9y agoOr they come to HN to recruit individual contributors and not managers. You're wrong, though: every month I've looked there have been one or two posts including open EM positions.
- bendmorris 9y agoOne or two out of hundreds of openings. For a definition of "nobody" that really means "next to nobody", you're making the parent comment's case.