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These might be great philosophical considerations, but no one is interviewing you for Programmer Heaven. These shitty interviewing tactics make interviewers fe
by sparker72678 5y ago
These might be great philosophical considerations, but no one is interviewing you for Programmer Heaven.
These shitty interviewing tactics make interviewers feel good about themselves and perpetuate a culture of elitism without actually doing anything at all to find people who will actually be good at the job they're supposedly hiring for.
"Write a tool to find and sort anagrams in a random paragraph, using BrainFuck. You have 20 minutes." is just about self-pleasure for the interviewer.
- sealeck 5y agoThere's a schism obviously; some practices are obviously abusive and should be stamped out. Interviewing is a two-way process though; I would much rather someone employed such a tactic in the interview because then I could not accept the job instead of showing up and realising how bad it is. At some point it turns out that you have to do things you don't want to no matter what you do. That's the nature of our interconnected reality.