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Bad interview questions are actually quite useful, as an indicator that the company is not somewhere you ought to work.
by r00k 14y ago
Bad interview questions are actually quite useful, as an indicator that the company is not somewhere you ought to work.
- mindstab 14y agoI've had Facebook, Google, and Linkedin all use these... It's pretty systemic. :(
- thinkbohemian 14y agoJust because some clueless monolithic companies don't know how to interview, doesn't mean all of us should follow in their footsteps. True story, i know a guy who was denied a job at FB after an interview, a few months later they ended up giving him a few hundred thousand after they acquired the small company he ended up working for. He now works for FB. Interviews are poor indicators of performance.
- tptacek 14y agoOr, he was a bad fit for the role he was interviewing for, and Fb --- like every other business in the world --- didn't have the foresight to consider every other possible role they could ever want him for.
- azat_co 14y agoGood point and an inspiring story... interviews like these are good indicator not to work there :)
- jlarocco 14y agoI don't think it's a bad interview question, and I think the guy in the article is being a prima donna and missing the entire point of interviewing. Enough people who can't code apply for software development jobs that asking a simple thing like "Write a sort function" is a good filter. Why waste 10 minutes on a better question when he can eliminate 50% of the applicants in 2? The interviewer doesn't think you're dumb and he's not trying to snub you - it's just how interview questions work. If you're such an amazing developer you shouldn't have a hard time writing a sort function. Spend the 30 seconds to write the sort routine and get over it.