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What about the people who don't do actual work, but have a decent CV and a good story about how they do? Have you ever experienced what it's like to try and hi
by bennyelv 5y ago
What about the people who don't do actual work, but have a decent CV and a good story about how they do?
Have you ever experienced what it's like to try and hire decent developers or are you only offering the candidates' point of view?
In my experience more than 50% of the applicants who make through to an interview are the kind I describe in that first sentence.
- mewpmewp2 5y agoYes, I am interviewing, but I'm offering a real world problem to solve for candidates, not an exercise picked from Leetcode. I actually enjoy Leetcoding type problems, so I'd love to grind those, so I as a candidate don't have problems with those - although still I'd rather be building stuff. The real world problem most of the time resembles understanding instructions, navigating in an existing codebase, implementing some feature. This gives really good insight into how much they've built, how much they know or how much potential they have - for example if they are unfamiliar with some things, they are always allowed to Google and if they do it efficiently, that's very telling about their potential. With Leetcode you won't know whether the person has actual skill or experience to build something or they just practiced Leetcoding for 6 months straight.