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Wow. I heavily rely on Google for work, wouldn't expect a candidate spend precious interview time googling though.
by oytis 2y ago
Wow. I heavily rely on Google for work, wouldn't expect a candidate spend precious interview time googling though.
- michaelt 2y agoThere are a bunch of subtly different ways to perform a coding interview. If the interviewer points you at a whiteboard and asks you how to reverse an array, most likely they're checking you know what a for loop is and how to index into an array, and how to be careful of off-by-one errors. Even if your language has a built-in library function for doing this, they'd probably like you to not use it. If the interviewer hands you a laptop with a realistic codebase on it and asks you to implement e-mail address validation, they're going for a more real-world test. Probably they'll be fine with you googling for an e-mail address validation regex, what they want to see is that you do things like add unit tests and whatnot.
- oytis 2y agoMakes sense. I've never been asked to make such an exercise in real time, most of the time that would be a take home task - but I understand if someone wants to do that. Still it would be weird to demand that a candidate uses Google, wouldn't it?
- michaelt 2y agoI picked e-mail validation as an example precisely because it's something even experienced developers would be well advised to google if they want to get it right :) Of course, if someone can get it right off the top of their head, more power to them!