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I'd rather have a weekend homework assignment than a loop of coding interviews. Much more reasonable assessment of skills & potential, in my opinion. Happy to d
by pnathan 8y ago
I'd rather have a weekend homework assignment than a loop of coding interviews. Much more reasonable assessment of skills & potential, in my opinion. Happy to do whatever algorithm madness thrown my way in that case. It's a real tough gig to solve some ambiguous algorithm problem in 40 minutes on a whiteboard, analyse it, and then discuss optimality. Gets worse if the loop is serial algorithms interviews.
- pmiller2 8y agoThis is one of the exact points made in the article: if it’s a screening question, it should be really basic, like FizzBuzz level. If it’s an evaluation that goes into whether to make an offer, then the scope needs to be clear, and it should replace a portion of the actual onsite interview. The problem is that it typically doesn’t replace part of the interview. Incidentally, this is my criticism of TripleByte... pass their interview, and you skip to the onsite with a bunch of companies. But you still have to do the full dog and pony show with the client company, except the phone screens, and there’s a substantial time investment involved up front. You need to do a lot of onsites before you recoup that.