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Recently I've been interviewing a bunch of programmers and most of them exhibited one pattern - while their code was good, when it came to edit it, in a f2f int
by eithed 6y ago
Recently I've been interviewing a bunch of programmers and most of them exhibited one pattern - while their code was good, when it came to edit it, in a f2f interview, they simply couldn't do it. They had access to googling the answer, they could ask questions and I tried to give hints to the answer. It's as if they didn't write it - it was most bizarre. So, no, will stick to the interviews as well.
- MeinBlutIstBlau 6y agoWow that's crazy. I wouldn't mind being given interview like that. It's the hard math quiz whiteboards I'm petrified of. Not being able to access my notes is like telling me run shell commands on a cli program you've never used and you can't use --help or -man
- eithed 6y agoYeah, that's unrealistic - in the real world you have access to the internet, to your notes, to other people. As long as you can apply that knowledge, as long as you can show that "ok, here I want to use XYZ because of ABC", I think that's what matters.
- justinclift 6y agoPerhaps you've hit a run of people submitting dodgy or bogus work? One of the other commenters mentioned people doing phone screens who were clearly not the people in a f2f interview. So maybe it's something along those lines? eg: people who've not really written the code, then being asked to edit it... and boom, they're screwed. If you're having a run of people doing that though, it sounds like something about the way you're finding candidates needs adjusting. Maybe try through a different avenue?