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Or worse, go to an interview, they ask you how to fix a specific problem, never hear from them again. Later find out that they had no openings, just wanted the

Or worse, go to an interview, they ask you how to fix a specific problem, never hear from them again. Later find out that they had no openings, just wanted the problem solved.

ed25519FUUU 4y ago
Lmao has this happened to you? If someone’s problem really can be fixed in a 45 minute conversation I’d gladly provide it for a beer. No subterfuge necessary.
- mikelovenotwar 4y ago
  Once, shortly after the .com bubble burst, and I only found out a year or so later. The interviewer, rather worse for ware, approached me in a nightclub and told me all about it.
- epups 4y ago
  You're hired, I will pay you ~40 beers a week
ericmcer 4y ago
I ran interviews at my last job. Most candidates struggled with basic algos like: write a function to check if a string is a palindrome. I can't imagine a candidate being: A. Someone who can solve engineering problems we can't with no context in under an hour. B. Someone we don't want to make an offer too.
- mikelovenotwar 4y ago
  > A. Someone who can solve engineering problems we can't with no context in under an hour. Not all employers have dedicated IT teams, behaviour such as this fixes a problem without having to pay for it, while giving false hope to interviewees.
- skeeter2020 4y ago
  >> write a function to check if a string is a palindrome. outside of an intern or junior these types of questions are such garbage. Do your teams write a lot of trivial, isolated functions in the day to day?
  - ericmcer 4y ago
    I agree for questions that are impossible if you didn’t memorize the specific algorithm that solves them. This question and the others I tried to ask usually have a ton of possible solutions and someone who knows how to code or can at least talk with me about coding can come up with one.
  - 0x0000000 4y ago
    It's a smoke test, there are a lot of fakers out there. Everyone should be able to write a function to check if a string is a palindrome, regardless of the role not necessarily involving writing trivial isolated functions.
  - hooverd 4y ago
    No, but it should be easy.

Or worse, go to an interview, they ask you how to fix a specific problem, never hear from them again. Later find out that they had no openings, just wanted the problem solved.

ed25519FUUU 4y ago

Lmao has this happened to you? If someone’s problem really can be fixed in a 45 minute conversation I’d gladly provide it for a beer. No subterfuge necessary.

mikelovenotwar 4y ago
Once, shortly after the .com bubble burst, and I only found out a year or so later. The interviewer, rather worse for ware, approached me in a nightclub and told me all about it.
epups 4y ago
You're hired, I will pay you ~40 beers a week

ericmcer 4y ago

I ran interviews at my last job. Most candidates struggled with basic algos like: write a function to check if a string is a palindrome. I can't imagine a candidate being: A. Someone who can solve engineering problems we can't with no context in under an hour. B. Someone we don't want to make an offer too.

mikelovenotwar 4y ago
> A. Someone who can solve engineering problems we can't with no context in under an hour. Not all employers have dedicated IT teams, behaviour such as this fixes a problem without having to pay for it, while giving false hope to interviewees.
skeeter2020 4y ago
>> write a function to check if a string is a palindrome. outside of an intern or junior these types of questions are such garbage. Do your teams write a lot of trivial, isolated functions in the day to day?
- ericmcer 4y ago
  I agree for questions that are impossible if you didn’t memorize the specific algorithm that solves them. This question and the others I tried to ask usually have a ton of possible solutions and someone who knows how to code or can at least talk with me about coding can come up with one.
- 0x0000000 4y ago
  It's a smoke test, there are a lot of fakers out there. Everyone should be able to write a function to check if a string is a palindrome, regardless of the role not necessarily involving writing trivial isolated functions.
- hooverd 4y ago
  No, but it should be easy.