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What would be a good selection strategy without technical interviews? I've seen people with good CV and reference projects being hired, only to turn out they li
by blauditore 8y ago
What would be a good selection strategy without technical interviews? I've seen people with good CV and reference projects being hired, only to turn out they literally couldn't program. It's old news that sneaking to a CS degree without learning anything substantial is possible, and those are easily debunked in even simple task like solving FizzBuzz on the whiteboard.
- JustSomeNobody 8y agoNo whiteboard doesn't mean no technical interview. You can pair up on a real computer, you can have a take home, things like that.
- blauditore 8y agoBoth of these have huge disadvantages for interviewing: - When working in front of a computer, people get worse at communicating. Even if they try to speak out their thougts, it usually doesn't work well, as thinking and operating an IDE (or whatever at hand) already occupies a lot of brain capacity. - Take-home exercises are hard to control: You don't know how long a candidate worked on it. Even if there's a target like 4 hours, some might work all night on it - either because they couldn't do it in the allocated time, or because they fear some disadvantage. Apart of that, they might pay someone to solve it for them.
- actionowl 8y ago> Apart of that, they might pay someone to solve it for them. I think that can be solved by having the candidate talk about their solution and how they made certain choices.
- stronglikedan 8y agoI love FizzBuzz and am constantly astonished on the amount of candidates it weeds out in the first in-person interview.