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the blog author doesn’t take them through the company’s code base. the author creates code for the interview.
by mylons 5y ago
the blog author doesn’t take them through the company’s code base. the author creates code for the interview.
- wnolens 5y agoYea a lot of people in this thread missed that point. It's still contrived problems, just testing comprehension rather than creation. But you can contrive much larger problems than you could ever ask a candidate to code, so you escape the ability for a candidate to practice your exact questions to some degree.
- mylons 5y agoi kind of like the idea of taking them through your codebase, though. allowing the interviewer to concoct problems leads to something i'm very passionate about, and that's attempting to stifle the ego involved in the interview process. for whatever reason, intellectual prowess, and displaying it, exposes itself in interviews. the interviewer will ultimately end up trying to dominate you intellectually to satisfy their own ego. it's pretty pathetic, and rampant in whiteboarding.