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Mostly good article: and totally agree that leetcode style interviews under intense time pressure are a wasteful plague on the industry. A good web developer co
by logicalmonster 4y ago
Mostly good article: and totally agree that leetcode style interviews under intense time pressure are a wasteful plague on the industry. A good web developer could go through a bunch of interviews without ever once discussing designing APIs, HTTP requests, web security, or any one of a 100 practical topics which they deal with nearly daily, but might be asked to solve a pile of different leetcode questions (99% of which are close to irrelevant for the vast majority of typical day to day web-development).
If I could give one minor persuasive writing critique to the author of this article though, I'd suggest not emphasizing inclusivity (which is basically bog standard, meaningless corporate drivel by now), but emphasizing that changing the typical interview pattern ensures that you're casting the widest possible net for talent. There's business people out there that couldn't give half an ounce of care for doing a solid for whatever the heck they might think a neurodivergent is, but if you emphatically frame this a bit different (solely as the company missing out on talent) I think the argument instantly becomes a lot more appealing to a pretty large group in the business world.