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I agree with you. I have interviewed people who clearly memorized some of these solutions. They just write the algorithm straight down almost without thinking.
by corpMaverick 8y ago
I agree with you. I have interviewed people who clearly memorized some of these solutions. They just write the algorithm straight down almost without thinking. But completely fail with other simpler problems.They will struggle on any real life situation.
- munk-a 8y agoThen stop asking these questions. During an interview you should be determining if a candidate is a good fit for the job they're going to have, talk to them to suss out their fit with the existing team and maybe bring up a few issues you recently hit in your day to day work (or that were recently hit by people doing what this hire will be doing). A beautiful hidden point in this, assuming this task wasn't solved entirely in isolation by one person then discussing what the company did after hearing their thoughts will demonstrate the sort of communication levels the candidate could expect if they accepted the position. By asking rote questions like this you're much more likely to decrease your chances of getting people who are good team builders as the lack of a focus on team cohesion will turn a lot of people off.
- corpMaverick 8y agoI do agree. For this reason I try to come up with my own problems. But these problems are good because they are easy to explain but they stop being useful once people have memorized them.