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In all my years of interviewing (~25), I've only had this happen once - I got sat in front of an internet connected laptop, given a perfectly sensible task, and
by zimpenfish 8y ago
In all my years of interviewing (~25), I've only had this happen once - I got sat in front of an internet connected laptop, given a perfectly sensible task, and left alone for half an hour.
Most of the time it's "solve this already thoroughly solved problem in your own time but with {one hand in a blender, whilst you're on fire, without using any variables}" or some such bullshit.
- arethuza 8y agoAbout the same - I had one 'interview' where I had to write a client and server in C++ that would allow clients to register network MAC addresses with the server along with some associated data and then retrieve it at a later time. Took me a couple of hours, interviewer said my code wasn't particularly "object oriented" but I got the job. The irony of this was it was for a Director of Engineering job where I didn't do any coding! :-)
- genezeta 8y agoIn my similar amount of experience... I have seen an approach similar to this maybe twice. Sad, yeah. I have used it, though, when I had to hire. And it went fairly well. I don't have any hiring responsibilities now so I haven't had the chance to use it more often.