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If only it was a myth. I always like(d) to do a simple programming exercise (no fancy data structures nor algorithms) that can easily be solved with a map / fil
by TurboHaskal 7y ago
If only it was a myth. I always like(d) to do a simple programming exercise (no fancy data structures nor algorithms) that can easily be solved with a map / filter / reduce one-liner (or a for loop with an accumulator and a simple if else, that's fine too).
I get that people aren't good at coding in interviews (count me in!), but I have lost count of the number of applicants who can't get it done. The situation got so bad that they kindly asked me to stop asking such questions.
- reallydontask 7y agoI've seen people panic in coding interviews I used to have a set of unit tests and asked the candidate to make them pass and I thought this was a good system. We have a senior dev that got something wrong early on, started getting more nervous, refused help as it was a simple problem, got more nervous and flaked out completely. On the other hand we had people that were so unfamiliar with coding that this was a good test to weed them out.