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This "can't code a for loop" is a misleading statement given the kind of interviews that are typical at e.g. Facebook. Even if that candidate could code a for
by blub 6y ago
This "can't code a for loop" is a misleading statement given the kind of interviews that are typical at e.g. Facebook.
Even if that candidate could code a for loop and a while loop and knew the syntax of that programming language by heart and knew their algorithms to boot, it's more than likely that they would fail the interview anyway.
Complaining about people that can't code loops emphasizes that the candidates are incompetent while omitting the also very relevant fact that many companies are ridiculously difficult to please.
- Hydraulix989 6y agoThe most basic weed-out phone screen questions at FAANG still essentially test for undergraduate CS abilities far above for-loops. Tree traversal, data structures, algorithms, and complexity analysis are several topics suggested in the very preparation guides provided by recruiters at these companies. A lack of understanding for-loops would either get caught at the resume screener or suggest some blatant fabrications thereof akin to a pianist not knowing where middle C is. We don't even need to use FizzBuzz, our most basic interview questions we use are considerably more difficult and our candidate pipeline is sufficient to support this to boot.