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I think of interviewing like I think of other "tests" like the SATs. They're a thing you've got to study for. Just because they don't mirror what your day to da
by alecbenzer 6y ago
I think of interviewing like I think of other "tests" like the SATs. They're a thing you've got to study for. Just because they don't mirror what your day to day at a job will be like doesn't automatically mean they're of no value.
I think some coding interview questions are bad, some are better, but I don't think the idea that you must take what amounts to a test to get a job is inherently bad.
- atomashpolskiy 6y agoDo you think you will hold the same opinion 5-10 years down the road?
- alecbenzer 6y agoUh, I dunno? Is the implication that I'll have less patience for taking tests each time I change a job when it's the Nth time? Maybe? At 5-6 years out of school, I personally don't mind tests. Sometimes I actually really like tests (e.g., I've started watching youtube vids of Putnam problems, like doing daily problems on brilliant). I can imagine time to study becoming more scarce if I had a family, but I was under the impression that changing jobs was something that's gonna take a healthy amount of time regardless. To be clear: I think you can have bad tests, and I imagine I'd find it frustrating if I was boxed out of a lot of jobs I thought I'd do really well at because the unrelated test keeps me out. But I don't think needing to study inherently makes a test bad.