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For one, interviewing requires extremely short term knowledge. Almost everybody I know who plays the interviewing game learns just enough to pass the interviews

For one, interviewing requires extremely short term knowledge. Almost everybody I know who plays the interviewing game learns just enough to pass the interviews, then immediately forgets it until the next time. So it's not really comparable to learning and refining a difficult topic over the course of a few years, as in the case of software development practices. Also, it's two completely different skillsets! There's something very weird about interviewing for X but then demanding Y. I don't ask my primary care physician how good he is at surgery, then be like "he knows how to learn difficult tasks, so we're good".

triceratops 7y ago
> Almost everybody I know who plays the interviewing game learns just enough to pass the interviews, then immediately forgets it until the next time Presumably the first time they learned computer science fundamentals it took them some time right? People usually go to college for several years to learn this stuff - or 6-month bootcamps for 40-60 hours/week. Subsequently of course it'll take less time to refresh their knowledge. > Also, it's two completely different skillsets! There's something very weird about interviewing for X but then demanding Y I'm not disagreeing here. I just think most companies that use this interviewing style figure that X (easy to measure in 45-minute interviews) is a reasonable proxy for Y (much harder to measure). And Y (writing good code) is easier to train new employees to do as long as current employees maintain standards in code reviews.