5 ms·
I think you're absolutely right in terms of senior engineers' responsibilities. My take is the following: - It's hard to evaluate the skills you mentioned. The
by vecter 6y ago
I think you're absolutely right in terms of senior engineers' responsibilities. My take is the following:
- It's hard to evaluate the skills you mentioned. They're important, but generally "softer".
- It's easy to validate if someone solved a cut and dry algorithms questions. As far as I can tell, it's basically a proxy for an IQ test.
I'm not justifying this, but that's my guess for why companies do this.
- nullsense 6y agoI think it's less of an IQ test and more akin to a gang initiation ritual. Instead of "the condition of joining our gang is you need to murder a random in cold blood" they are saying "our hazing ritual is grinding several hundred hours of leetcode and finally running the leetcode gauntlet, if you can endure that, you're in".
- Pet_Ant 6y agoIt's almost as if the qualities you want are someone's EQ (emotional quotient) and not IQ. ...which sucks for high IQ low EQ persons like myself. My hardest problem to solve at work is always myself.