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Employers still ask them, so we still gotta answer them. Reality for most devs. Many complain but only a few can realistically opt-out.
by zaptheimpaler 8y ago
Employers still ask them, so we still gotta answer them. Reality for most devs. Many complain but only a few can realistically opt-out.
- pmontra 8y agoThey ask those questions when they have to compare many candidates because they can't think of anything automatic that scales. It's the street light effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetlight_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetlight_effect
- pytester 8y agoI've found that creating a 1-1.5 hour test that is deliberately designed to be a realistic depiction of the work the candidate will do works and scales just fine. In practice this means creating a small example project with all of the tedious boilerplate ready and in place and asking the candidate to implement 1-3 relevant stories on it. It's not the streetlight effect that got the industry into this sorry state. It's a combination of cargo culting and laziness.