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All excellent points, happily ignored by every large company. Every time I come for an interview, I ask: did you check out my github? Only once in a while som
by java-man 6y ago
All excellent points, happily ignored by every large company.
Every time I come for an interview, I ask: did you check out my github? Only once in a while somebody responds with a yes. I mean, it's not a big deal - I just have a bunch of weekend projects there, nothing really outstanding, but it might give more information than any 15 minute coding quiz can give you.
And, always the whiteboard coding... madness!
- pjmlp 6y agoThing is, going through the github repository requires time, the whiteboard exercise they can pick anyone that happens to be idle just 5 minutes before the candidate arrives, just in time to print out the cv and being dragged into the interview room.
- java-man 6y agoThat's it. They are not really interested in getting the best (or competent) talent, they just need to follow a ritual. I mean, it's all explained better in the article, but focusing on competence: if they don't measure the competence [of a senior software engineer] they will not hire a competent engineer. And I've seen plenty of senior engineers who can produce reams and reams of awful, unmaintaineable, and buggy code. And, I am sure, they all aced the whiteboarding.