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If you're building some sort of basic, crud app you shouldn't hire this candidate, or at least recognize they are a project - is that what you want? But if you
by skeeter2020 2y ago
If you're building some sort of basic, crud app you shouldn't hire this candidate, or at least recognize they are a project - is that what you want?
But if you're doing anything unique, or experimental they might be a great fit.
Most of us are doing the second.
- whstl 2y agoI mean, the interview requirements are quirky and unconventional as heck. Anyone saying "you gotta check divisibility without math" on the job would get laughed out of the room.
- blharr 2y agoThe only thing I can think of is they were fielding for them to say "that's not possible" and push back, potentially as a way to gauge if they would reject unreasonable client expectations or something.
- joseda-hg 2y agoThen it's a stupid way to check for it, because it was possible and trivial enough to implement in a short time frame with a "rewrite" in the middle and no attempt to meassure pushing back in other ways when the first one failed
- blharr 2y agoYea still absolutely unreasonable, but it's the only way it even makes sense for me
- whstl 2y agoPossible but risky in an interview. Some people are really unreasonable.