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> Every interview you ever do will be in Python This must be specific to your area of expertise. I've been in the industry over a decade, and never have I cond

> Every interview you ever do will be in Python This must be specific to your area of expertise. I've been in the industry over a decade, and never have I conducted or been a candidate in an interview where Python was used.

kritr 4y ago
On the contrary, I interviewed for multiple companies for C++ roles in Python, so your mileage may vary.
- chitowneats 4y ago
  Did you mention Python experience on your resume? I already find whitespace sensitivity off-putting when I have support from my text editor or IDE. I'd be even more annoyed if forced to use it on a whiteboard.
  - telotortium 4y ago
    On the contrary, whitespace indentation is best on the whiteboard, and is probably what inspired Python in the first place (whiteboarding in education + pseudocode). It removes the main issues with whitespace indentation (spaces being coalesced in things like HTML and parser that's overly picky about the exact number of spaces in a block). As long as you can vaguely line up a block vertically, anyone will be able to figure out what you mean on the whiteboard.
    - chitowneats 4y ago
      This is actually a pretty persuasive argument to me. My frustration comes from using it to satisfy a machine. Humans are much more flexible.
quickthrower2 4y ago
A bit hyperbolic. As anecdata: Every interview I have every done has not been in Python. 20 yoe. 20 lines of python written :-)
- zamnos 4y ago
  What were the interviews in instead? As long as we're contributing anecdata, 9 yoe on the hiring side, almost all interviews have been in Python, especially for interns. What's interesting is the company where I was at for the majority of, their main stack was Ruby, and they respected new employees' intelligence enough to assume they could just pick that up after being hired. If you're not pedantic about the syntax, Python, and it's libraries were great for interviews. I did a handful of them in Golang, using the same question, but there was always a time crunch because Golang required more boilerplate (for the particulars of the question).
  - ipaddr 4y ago
    php or javascript
  - quickthrower2 4y ago
    Usually the interviewees preferred language. If not, then the language mainly used by the company: Java or C#. I am assuming Python is the "Schelling Point" of companies in the US tech centres.
    - zamnos 4y ago
      What would you say most interviewees preferred? To be clear, my anecdata is that Python is the language of choice for candidates for the kinds of roles we were hiring for - I can easily imagine that a game studio would have C++ and Lua overrepresented.

kritr 4y ago

On the contrary, I interviewed for multiple companies for C++ roles in Python, so your mileage may vary.

chitowneats 4y ago
Did you mention Python experience on your resume? I already find whitespace sensitivity off-putting when I have support from my text editor or IDE. I'd be even more annoyed if forced to use it on a whiteboard.
- telotortium 4y ago
  On the contrary, whitespace indentation is best on the whiteboard, and is probably what inspired Python in the first place (whiteboarding in education + pseudocode). It removes the main issues with whitespace indentation (spaces being coalesced in things like HTML and parser that's overly picky about the exact number of spaces in a block). As long as you can vaguely line up a block vertically, anyone will be able to figure out what you mean on the whiteboard.
  - chitowneats 4y ago
    This is actually a pretty persuasive argument to me. My frustration comes from using it to satisfy a machine. Humans are much more flexible.

quickthrower2 4y ago

A bit hyperbolic. As anecdata: Every interview I have every done has not been in Python. 20 yoe. 20 lines of python written :-)

zamnos 4y ago
What were the interviews in instead? As long as we're contributing anecdata, 9 yoe on the hiring side, almost all interviews have been in Python, especially for interns. What's interesting is the company where I was at for the majority of, their main stack was Ruby, and they respected new employees' intelligence enough to assume they could just pick that up after being hired. If you're not pedantic about the syntax, Python, and it's libraries were great for interviews. I did a handful of them in Golang, using the same question, but there was always a time crunch because Golang required more boilerplate (for the particulars of the question).
- ipaddr 4y ago
  php or javascript
- quickthrower2 4y ago
  Usually the interviewees preferred language. If not, then the language mainly used by the company: Java or C#. I am assuming Python is the "Schelling Point" of companies in the US tech centres.
  - zamnos 4y ago
    What would you say most interviewees preferred? To be clear, my anecdata is that Python is the language of choice for candidates for the kinds of roles we were hiring for - I can easily imagine that a game studio would have C++ and Lua overrepresented.