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I mean if you feel that all the people you interviewed are worse programmer than all the people you went to school with then it's likely the problem was not the
by skyde 6y ago
I mean if you feel that all the people you interviewed are worse programmer than all the people you went to school with then it's likely the problem was not the candidate but the way the question was asked.
- baron816 6y agoI don’t have a CS degree and not everyone we interview has one. But judging candidates against who you went to school with seems like an odd strategy. I don’t understand your thinking there.
- skyde 6y agoI assumed you had a CS degree sorry. My point is at the university I graduated from "far from one of the top university", second year student all had to write a clone of "Mario Bros" from scratch in 6502 assembly. And wrote most part of an operating system "basic filesystem, task scheduler, virtual memory system ..". Which mean even the student that had the worst grade did all that and could do it again without help. So if I had to interview someone that went to the same university that I did, I don't see the point in asking them to write code to invert a linked list or to solve the n-queen problem because I already know they can do this and I am more interested to know if they have real world experience. By real world experience I mean know the downside of using a database like Apache Cassandra and to not use it for storing money related data despite all the hype about nosql ...