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Maybe by presenting your education and past experiences by discussing the design and interpersonal challenges you worked through? IMO quizzing someone on wheth
by dpe82 3y ago
Maybe by presenting your education and past experiences by discussing the design and interpersonal challenges you worked through?
IMO quizzing someone on whether they can solve an artificially tricky algorithm problem on the spot does not correlate very strongly the actual day-to-day work we do as software engineers. At best it's a measure of... whether someone can solve a tricky algorithm problem on the spot. It looks like engineering but it's not really what we do.
- dekhn 3y agoIf you read my comments you'll see I'm not advocating tricky algorithm problems. We're talking fizzbuzz-level verification, I'd say about 50% of applicants that I interview can't do fizzbuzz. Do you want me to make it easier? how about reverse a string?
- dpe82 3y agoAh yeah, agreed, a bare minimum "yeah ok you can code" is perfectly reasonable.