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> No, they hire Competitive Programmers More specifically, programmers who spend a lot of time learning how to solve algorithm puzzles. This heavily favors sin
by umvi 7y ago
> No, they hire Competitive Programmers
More specifically, programmers who spend a lot of time learning how to solve algorithm puzzles. This heavily favors single people who have lots of time to devote to studying such things and disadvantages time-constrained people such as developers with a family life at home.
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- p_l 7y agoHaving gone through some of their algorithmic questions, about the only thing consistent between competition programming and their questions was that N was large, often larger than resources of single machine. A very practical issue, compared to many competition problems. The first stage of the question might be very competition-like, though.
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- zerr 7y agoYes, ageism is one of the consequences (or reason) of such interview practice.
- username90 7y agoIs there any evidence that older engineers are worse at these interviews than younger ones?
- umvi 7y agoIt's not that older engineers are worse at them (from an intelligence standpoint), it's that younger engineers have more time to study for them. Take a standardized test like the LSAT. Young single people can spend 4-5 hours a day taking practice LSAT exams. Older married people with small children barely have 2 spare hours after work let alone 4 (without neglecting their spouse/kids). Assuming both the older and younger devs in this scenario have identical IQs, who is likely to do better come LSAT test day? It's a war of time attrition.