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I think actually whats happening is some people are just not good at interviewing on the spot. And people are looking for gotchas in these interviews, "He didnt

I think actually whats happening is some people are just not good at interviewing on the spot. And people are looking for gotchas in these interviews, "He didnt know how to use breadth first search?!?!?!", when the senior engineers daily life is probably more like a surgeon operating on a highly convoluted large scale code base full of business logic.

dagmx 4y ago
That may be true for some other interviews, but like I said, I ask questions based on what we'd be doing day to day. I don't care about CS theory jargon or language gotchas. Again, at least half of software engineers I talk to for the screening round are not strong developers for the reasons I mentioned above.