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You know, some people do love devouring works from Knuth and such and still can't pass those tests. Yegge just assumed that such tests work for any type of indi
by mihaitodor 2y ago
You know, some people do love devouring works from Knuth and such and still can't pass those tests. Yegge just assumed that such tests work for any type of individual who is willing to study hard, which is simply not true. The frustrating bit is that nobody told me when I embarked on this career path how much I'd have to struggle and put myself through the same traumatising experience over and over just so I can get a job.
- hintymad 2y agoNo argument about it. I was just explaining from the perspective of the companies. Per another thread, the companies usually do not care about false negatives and they recognize that there will be false positives. In the meantime, they get so many resumes so they can afford having false negatives. Case in point, even IBM got tens of thousands of resumes every week in the 2000s. Not that I can pass the interviews, by the way, and I definitely don't want to prepare for such coding challenges. I'm just trying to explain the phenomena as an observer.
- mihaitodor 2y agoSure, and all I'm saying is that it's possible to have a software engineer career without putting yourself through such tests. Yes, it's harder to find decent jobs, but it pains me so much when I see people giving up after years of effort just because they're not aware they can get hired and practice what they enjoy doing without having to pass such tests.