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If you have ever been on the other side of the interview divide, and noticed that >50% of "programmers" cannot write a single line of code, you might not find i

by Aeolos 3y ago

If you have ever been on the other side of the interview divide, and noticed that >50% of "programmers" cannot write a single line of code, you might not find it so weird anymore... Not just self-proclaimed programmers either. I've had a chap claim 5+ years of C++ experience working on GE nuclear reactor software, who couldn't explain how C++ memory management works, or delete vs delete[]. So yes, programming interviews it is, unless we get some different form of accreditation like doctors or lawyers.

jwestbury 3y ago
Oddly -- I've never had this problem in interviews. Is it possible that it's better screening happening pre-interview at FAANG and FAANG-like places? For what it's worth, I like practical programming problems. The problem comes when the programming interviews don't match the job. Why do I need to write a sorting algorithm in an interview for an SRE position? (I worked at Dropbox for a couple of years, and my interview there was probably the best SRE coding interview I've had - detect duplicate files in a filesystem, with follow-ups about improving performance.)