3 ms·
This article really indicates to me the fatuousness of this sorts of problem/solution interview approach. I agree with timr in that a more more intelligent app
by pnathan 15y ago
This article really indicates to me the fatuousness of this sorts of problem/solution interview approach.
I agree with timr in that a more more intelligent approach is to throw a problem at the candidate, then drill down into their thinking about the problem.
It's a bit silly if you're hiring based on regurgitation of algorithms in my opinion.
- tikhonj 15y agoI certainly agree. However, I haven't actually seen any pure problem/solution interviews--and this is just for internships where you wouldn't expect the companies to be as thorough. I had questions ranging from "find and fix the problems in this code" to "how would you design a library to do..." to "propose a solution to this problem and prove it works". This might be because I mostly talked to smaller companies.