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One could argue that CS undergraduate degrees are perfectly suited for this purpose. FAANG & Co don't seem to care for that. You've successfully passed a few do
by alboy 8y ago
One could argue that CS undergraduate degrees are perfectly suited for this purpose. FAANG & Co don't seem to care for that. You've successfully passed a few dozen exams at MIT or Stanford? Well, let's make the reasonable assumption that you have no clue about algorithms and data structures and start with our third whiteboarding session, that should be a way better proxy for your knowledge.
- erik_seaberg 8y agoThose incentives are misaligned. Not every law school grad can pass the bar.
- alboy 8y agoThey may very well be, but is the quality of signal truly worse than that which an interviewer can extract from a few hours of your writing code on the board?
- erik_seaberg 8y agoThere are people with degrees who can't code. I'd prefer we don't hire them, so we ask for coding.