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This was my impression as well. There were likely real issues that made the process annoying, but the tone of the post is basically "how dare you ask me those s
by ptero 8y ago
This was my impression as well. There were likely real issues that made the process annoying, but the tone of the post is basically "how dare you ask me those stupid questions at the interview you invited me to?".
On site interviews usually evaluate not only technical competency but also whether that person is OK to work with, especially during crunch times. Being able to point to a few github projects is good, but not sufficient. When faced with a question one cannot answer staying positive and trying a few options is often sufficient to get off the hook.
- zanny 8y agoIt is insulting to someone with tens of thousands of lines of public code in open source. You can work at a tech giant for half a decade and slip under the radar with no way to prove or disprove your competency there unless you can get references from the job, but for those who have put out tons of work for free having those who want them to write code for them asking for grade school pop questionnaires is an insult to their expertise. You don't ask a published drug researcher with patents or papers written to build simple molecules out of building blocks during the interview, but in software even senior engineers are asked to regurgitate things from CS202 for decades on end instead of actually acknowledging their accomplishments or talking about their legitimate capabilities.