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How does one go about finding such companies?
by b0afc375b5 7y ago
How does one go about finding such companies?
- EdwardDiego 7y agoHmm, good question. I think I work for such a company, I guess an easy tell would be during an interview coding exercise, if they explicitly invite you to use a search engine or API documentation etc. In a company where people take excessive pride in their intellect, I find that it often manifests in the "What, you don't know this exact thing I don't know?!" attitude you can find in some interviewers (to quote the infamous tweet: "Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but you can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so fuck off.") Likewise, if they want you to write actual code, their culture of intellectual humility will manifest in asking beforehand if you have a preferred tool and making it available, or inviting you to bring your laptop etc. instead of forcing you to write code on a whiteboard (bonus points if they point out every semi-colon you missed), or in their arbitrary editor of choice, complete with customised key-bindings that combine the "best" of Emacs AND Vim.
- fuball63 7y agoI think this is a good start for sure. I had a take home assignment. Also, a lot of the interviewing was personality based, so that was a good sign too.
- fuball63 7y agoI found this company through a friend that worked there, and he just got lucky I think.