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I know this attitude won't win very many friends, but I wouldn't accept a position where I wasn't asked to write code during the interview. I'm going to be wri

I know this attitude won't win very many friends, but I wouldn't accept a position where I wasn't asked to write code during the interview. I'm going to be writing code for money and they don't want me to prove that I can before hand? That's like hiring a "farmer" from the inner-city.

code_duck 16y ago
I'd take a look at a candidates github account or other open source work. That might preclude the need to ask for code during the interview.
- gcb 16y ago
  most of my github account is filled with trash that i start for one day, barely learn something completely new to me, sometime a new language, then forget and move on. if I find said thing promising, i'd usually came back some weekends later and do something more complex, but again, basically junk. oh, and did i mention nothing looks finished? Now, take anything i code behind the closed doors at my employer or i contribute to some open source projects. It will shine like nothing you will ever see in my github or googlecode or such.
  - cdavid 16y ago
    I think you are not looking at it the right way: sure, a lot of stuff on github is crap, but if you have something good on it where you are a significant contributor, then it surely is a good sign.
  - ghshephard 16y ago
    Good grief -you have a github account that you put code on. You've already put yourself ahead of 90% of the candidates applying for a position as a developer - don't sell yourself short.
mavelikara 16y ago
+1. If I am not asked to write code in the interview, it is likely that other employees of the firm were not asked to in their interviews either. In the absence of other indicators (like open source code published by the firm), I will take this to mean that the codebase I have to work with, should I accept the position, is likely not to be stellar.

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I know this attitude won't win very many friends, but I wouldn't accept a position where I wasn't asked to write code during the interview. I'm going to be wri

by adamdecaf 16y ago

code_duck 16y ago
I'd take a look at a candidates github account or other open source work. That might preclude the need to ask for code during the interview.
- gcb 16y ago
  most of my github account is filled with trash that i start for one day, barely learn something completely new to me, sometime a new language, then forget and move on. if I find said thing promising, i'd usually came back some weekends later and do something more complex, but again, basically junk. oh, and did i mention nothing looks finished? Now, take anything i code behind the closed doors at my employer or i contribute to some open source projects. It will shine like nothing you will ever see in my github or googlecode or such.
  - cdavid 16y ago
    I think you are not looking at it the right way: sure, a lot of stuff on github is crap, but if you have something good on it where you are a significant contributor, then it surely is a good sign.
  - ghshephard 16y ago
    Good grief -you have a github account that you put code on. You've already put yourself ahead of 90% of the candidates applying for a position as a developer - don't sell yourself short.
mavelikara 16y ago
+1. If I am not asked to write code in the interview, it is likely that other employees of the firm were not asked to in their interviews either. In the absence of other indicators (like open source code published by the firm), I will take this to mean that the codebase I have to work with, should I accept the position, is likely not to be stellar.