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I totally agree with you. Some of the content there seems relevant to CS in general, but I hate the fact that you need to study content that you won't use on th
by dmkirwan 5y ago
I totally agree with you. Some of the content there seems relevant to CS in general, but I hate the fact that you need to study content that you won't use on the job in order to pass an interview. It doesn't make sense to me. I've seen new grads perform as well as senior engineers with these Leetcode-style questions so I've stopped using them to assess engineers. Further, I know we're specifically trying to assess technical ability in an interview, but that's not the whole picture for an engineer. They need to be able to take feedback well and provide good mentorship also. I think we miss this.
Inspired by some realistic interviews that I did recently, I've been working on something[1] that aims to equip companies to hire engineers using realistic assessment methods. It scales like Hackerrank, but I think it's fairer.
[1] https://devscreen.io/ https://devscreen.io/
- Ancalagon 5y agodo you have a demo video or something for this?
- dmkirwan 5y agoNot yet - I'm going to add one to the homepage this week and also support a free trial.
- whimsicalism 5y ago> I've seen new grads perform as well as senior engineers with these Leetcode-style questions so I've stopped using them to assess engineers To me, this seems to be reasoning from an unproven premise. As tech becomes ever more lucrative, it honestly wouldn't surprise me that the average competence of new grad hires will skyrocket - supply of software engineers is going to increase and each subsequent generation will have more experience with technology.
- lmm 5y ago> I've seen new grads perform as well as senior engineers with these Leetcode-style questions so I've stopped using them to assess engineers. Good point, it could start a real crisis if the industry collectively admitted that senior engineers are no better than new grads.