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I’m more curious about the effectiveness of this question as an interviewer. I’d have to imagine you get a fairly strong signal to noise ratio as whoever takes
by beoberha 3y ago
I’m more curious about the effectiveness of this question as an interviewer. I’d have to imagine you get a fairly strong signal to noise ratio as whoever takes the time to get a working solution must be pretty qualified for your role. That said, you are probably leaving a ton of talent on the table by asking them to do (relatively) so much work.
- gafferongames 3y agoIt's definitely a pretty serious filter, and it's designed to be. The cost of hiring somebody who just cannot be effective with our stack is so high, that it's important that we test for somebody being able to learn our stack, and really wanting to work at Network Next. This question did a very good job of that.
- gafferongames 3y agoI would also mention that there is a type of programmer, that we definitely do want to hire, that finds a challenge like this really easy, might even bang something out in a few hours in a different stack, and show us something amazing. We were open to that as well.
- gafferongames 3y agoAs an example for that sort of programmer, consider an engineer at the caliber and experience level of Marek @ Cloudflare, who would absolutely eat a question like this for breakfast... https://blog.cloudflare.com/author/marek-majkowski https://blog.cloudflare.com/author/marek-majkowski This question is designed to help find those people, in addition to people who are really willing to learn the stack with no experience and who are excellent problem solvers.