Joel Spolsky, whose influential articles started the Leetcode-style interviewing, agrees we need something better: "But today Spolsky has mixed feelings about

Joel Spolsky, whose influential articles started the Leetcode-style interviewing, agrees we need something better: "But today Spolsky has mixed feelings about his guide — and its impacts on hiring in tech. “So this idea that you’re going to have a rigorous interview where you bring people in on the whiteboard and you say, ‘Show me how to copy a string while deleting the letter Q. In C, on the whiteboard.’ That was a big step up, I think, from, you know, ‘What college did you go to and who do you know and where did you work?’” [...] “It’s a great way to hire 10 developers. It’s a very bad way to get developers in a scarce environment where you’re trying to find the people that might be good.” A lot of good programmers end up getting rejected — while, even worse, companies end up hiring people who are good at passing tests, but underperform in the real world. “I think that method is definitely state-of-the-art 1995. It was even good for 2005. For 2018, I think you need a better system, and I think it’s probably going to be more like an apprenticeship or an internship, where you bring people on with a much easier filter at the beginning. And you hire them kind of on an experimental basis or on a training basis, and then you have to sort of see what they can do in the first month or two.” Article: https://thenewstack.io/joel-spolsky-on-stack-overflow-inclusion-and-how-he-broke-it-recruiting/ https://thenewstack.io/joel-spolsky-on-stack-overflow-inclus... HN discussion thereof: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39748546 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39748546