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Speaking as someone who has had to write performance critical data structures and also someone who does well with whiteboard interviews - there is a large diffe
by a_t48 7y ago
Speaking as someone who has had to write performance critical data structures and also someone who does well with whiteboard interviews - there is a large difference between writing an algorithm with the advantage of having time to read, reason, and test your code and doing it on a whiteboard. There are many people who would do a fine job as a filesystem developer but might not be able to pass the interview for it.
The current situation benefits me personally in many ways, but I recognize that it's unfair to many other people.
- oneplane 7y agoYes, that is true. At the same time, most of those interviews are of course more about finding out how a person performs under pressure and how a person thinks rather than how well the white boarded shell sort for red-black trees with double-rot13 'encryption' would be usable in the real world. At the same time I'd hope that we get better at asking questions rather than repeating the same nonsense in every interview. The more people we can work with, the better. Because maybe not everyone is a fit for the position we had in mind, but maybe a less complex position could be filled that way. Often the interviews are rather binary (due to it often targeting a vacancy instead of a workforce role) costs everyone involved much more than it ideally should.