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> biased towards people who have time to practice these problems That sounds like a bias towards people who make time to learn, not to mention interest and aca
by commonlisp94 3y ago
> biased towards people who have time to practice these problems
That sounds like a bias towards people who make time to learn, not to mention interest and academic aptitude.
I don't know how you can frame this as something you wouldn't want to bias for. But I do acknowledge many great engineers will not have that skill.
- Planktonne 3y ago"Make time to learn" and "make time to practice specific problems" are not at all the same thing; the conflation of grinding leetcode with growing understanding is a problem.
- commonlisp94 3y ago> the conflation of grinding leetcode with growing understanding is a problem. It's understanding something, even if it's not the job skills. Can you imagine someone who performs well at these kinds of challenges being a bad hire?
- Planktonne 3y ago> It's understanding something, even if it's not the job skills It's no better than any other evidence of effort > Can you imagine someone who performs well at these kinds of challenges being a bad hire? I don't have to imagine; it tends to lead to hard-to-maintain 'clever' code, with little ability to deal with less-than-clear requirements.
- commonlisp94 3y ago> It's no better than any other evidence of effort I think one thing that's better is it has a hard IQ floor that can only be compensated with a huge amount of memorization and practice, but that's a worthwhile skill on it's own.
- nitwit005 3y ago> Can you imagine someone who performs well at these kinds of challenges being a bad hire? I've gotten way better at these problems from practice. Am I suddenly an amazing programmer as a result? I wish that were the case, but sadly I don't believe my job skills are improved at all. That suggests we're measuring something fairly independent.