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Unfortunately, this is the type of interview you get when you don’t do the god awful LC kind. I personally like the untimed take home + a conversation about th

by lumost 3y ago

Unfortunately, this is the type of interview you get when you don’t do the god awful LC kind. I personally like the untimed take home + a conversation about the job. It’s not difficult to come up with a take home which can’t be “cheated” easily, and as a candidate I can look at the take home and decide at some point I don’t want the job that much.

fallingknife 3y ago
I'll do a take home when you pay me my consulting rate to do it. Not interested in any company that isn't even going to take an hour of engineering time to give me a technical screen.
- lumost 3y ago
  That's fair, the company spending real engineering time to interview you indicates that it is actually a real job and not a fake job. On the other side, I find live coding interviews terrifying. I only got over it in the last year or so after having done enough of them to know that I'll get the answer most of the time - and the times I don't ... I just don't sweat. When you're early in your career, it can be tough to know what you'll be asked and whether you are actually prepared enough - this leads to a lot of wasted effort/fear.
gymbeaux 3y ago
At least with leetcode there’s a standard, there’s consistency. You judge my ability to code by how well I know Djikstra? Fine, at least there’s only one Djikstra’s Algo, and I only have to learn it once.
_ea1k 3y ago
I worked at a place where we'd sometimes give take homes, but only for roles where we were hiring outside of their experience. Oh, you think you can learn tech XYZ even though it isn't on your resume? Ok, take a test that a novice in that area could pass fairly easily. You don't even have to pass, just explain what you tried and what your reasoning was. A few syntax errors and a directionally correct attempt are fine. We got a few good candidates that way, and I think we also filtered out some bad ones. Probably filtered out a few good ones too, though, tbh.

by lumost 3y ago

fallingknife 3y ago

I'll do a take home when you pay me my consulting rate to do it. Not interested in any company that isn't even going to take an hour of engineering time to give me a technical screen.

lumost 3y ago
That's fair, the company spending real engineering time to interview you indicates that it is actually a real job and not a fake job. On the other side, I find live coding interviews terrifying. I only got over it in the last year or so after having done enough of them to know that I'll get the answer most of the time - and the times I don't ... I just don't sweat. When you're early in your career, it can be tough to know what you'll be asked and whether you are actually prepared enough - this leads to a lot of wasted effort/fear.

gymbeaux 3y ago

At least with leetcode there’s a standard, there’s consistency. You judge my ability to code by how well I know Djikstra? Fine, at least there’s only one Djikstra’s Algo, and I only have to learn it once.

_ea1k 3y ago

I worked at a place where we'd sometimes give take homes, but only for roles where we were hiring outside of their experience. Oh, you think you can learn tech XYZ even though it isn't on your resume? Ok, take a test that a novice in that area could pass fairly easily. You don't even have to pass, just explain what you tried and what your reasoning was. A few syntax errors and a directionally correct attempt are fine. We got a few good candidates that way, and I think we also filtered out some bad ones. Probably filtered out a few good ones too, though, tbh.