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As someone that has held that title at multiple FAANGS and done hundreds of interviews: please don't equate performance in the absurd interview process with abi
by eysquared 5y ago
As someone that has held that title at multiple FAANGS and done hundreds of interviews: please don't equate performance in the absurd interview process with ability to code.
Most of the best developers I know would fail a technical interview for their current job.
- swader999 5y agoAmen to that.
- thatjoeoverthr 5y agoI think I just did last week. The interviewer asked me to explain SOLID. I could only remember the O and the L. All of these practices are deeply internalized but without having interviewed in a while, or even used English at work, the little speeches and buzzwords escaped me. Then he brought up REST. “What are important principles of REST?” Ummm, nounifaction? Uff.
- pdimitar 5y agoI fully sympathize and I had to mute my mic once so the interviewer doesn't hear that I am searching for what SOLID stands for, and then I proceeded to explain each of the characters. But to be fair... is that an actual technical interview?
- gampleman 5y agoI usually google SOLID before job interviews just in case someone actually asks about this.
- otabdeveloper4 5y ago> Most of the best developers I know would fail a technical interview for their current job. Yes, that's because they can't code. (No, connecting APIs and navigating information complexity landmines isn't coding.)
- borski 5y agoI agree with you, but I’m talking about literal FizzBuzz-esque questions. Experienced or not, any “senior developer/engineer” should be able to write a for loop.