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This is not a rhetorical question: How does other industries hire high knowledge well educated candidates ? How does doctors, mechanical engineers and space fl
by klintcho 6y ago
This is not a rhetorical question: How does other industries hire high knowledge well educated candidates ? How does doctors, mechanical engineers and space flight engineers get interviewed and assessed ?
As have already been reiterated in each and everyone of these threads (about leetcode/hackerrank/whiteboard coding) this is what the companies seem to think is the most proven, and produces most consistent results. But I would love to understand how other industries does this as well; does a propulsion engineer start to draw up a de Laval nozzle and calculate the exhaust gas velocity on a whiteboard? (again genuine question)
- twblalock 6y agoThe problem is that the software industry does not have the same standards as other industries. People graduate CS programs with little to no coding ability in many cases. There is no certification program like there is for, say, accountants or CPAs. Companies set the hiring bar all over the place. At a lot of companies, bad hires stick around for years. Other industries have higher and more consistent standards, and certification processes. The software industry is the wild west, and that is partly why it has succeeded and why so many self-taught programmers have found success in it. The other side of the coin is that the quality of candidates varies more widely than in other industries.
- pseudalopex 6y agoI've never seen someone with a CS degree and no coding ability. Lots of them weren't taught anything else about software engineering. But most interviews don't test anything else anyway.
- pseudalopex 6y agoEngineers discuss work they did mostly. Interviewers ask probing questions to catch bullshitters.