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I had an interview once where I did not have to write a line of code - it felt very refreshing to have my capabilities respected, although I just somehow lucked

by Bahamut 13y ago

I had an interview once where I did not have to write a line of code - it felt very refreshing to have my capabilities respected, although I just somehow lucked out it turned out.

jasonpeacock 13y ago
I've been burned too many times by people who can talk the talk, but cannot walk the walk. Design, data structures, development methodologies, etc, they knew it all. But ask them to code a simple method (find the intersection of two lists) and they take an hour to deliver a barely-working, sub-standard solution. Trust but verify.
fishtoaster 13y ago
Interesting- I have the opposite reaction. I would (and have) refused to work for a company that doesn't ask me to code in an interview. It may be nice for me, but it means they probably didn't ask my potential coworkers to code either, and I don't want to work on a team picked like that.
- FLUX-YOU 13y ago
  Yep. Fear of failing a technical interview keeps me from applying to places and keeps me learning new stuff, but I wouldn't want a job that I could talk myself into.
- Bahamut 13y ago
  Well, my GitHub is public (and was probably convincing enough), and everyone but me at the company was asked to code during the interviews - there was evidence on the TV from someone who coded for an interview that morning even. I was found from a local AngularJS meetup, and someone at the company was trying to gently prod me towards interviewing with them over the course of months...which wasn't so much of an interview process as seeing whether I was interested, since they clearly wanted me for my expertise.
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benched 13y ago
I didn't have to write a line of code during interviews for my current job. It felt like they looked at my resume and concluded it wouldn't add anything. I did, however, had to write code to solve a non-trivial, job-related problem, as a pre-interview screening step. If I hadn't had to write any code at all, I think I might have felt a little uncomfortable. Like, is everybody really sure about this?

by Bahamut 13y ago

I had an interview once where I did not have to write a line of code - it felt very refreshing to have my capabilities respected, although I just somehow lucked out it turned out.

jasonpeacock 13y ago

I've been burned too many times by people who can talk the talk, but cannot walk the walk. Design, data structures, development methodologies, etc, they knew it all. But ask them to code a simple method (find the intersection of two lists) and they take an hour to deliver a barely-working, sub-standard solution. Trust but verify.

fishtoaster 13y ago

Interesting- I have the opposite reaction. I would (and have) refused to work for a company that doesn't ask me to code in an interview. It may be nice for me, but it means they probably didn't ask my potential coworkers to code either, and I don't want to work on a team picked like that.

FLUX-YOU 13y ago
Yep. Fear of failing a technical interview keeps me from applying to places and keeps me learning new stuff, but I wouldn't want a job that I could talk myself into.
Bahamut 13y ago
Well, my GitHub is public (and was probably convincing enough), and everyone but me at the company was asked to code during the interviews - there was evidence on the TV from someone who coded for an interview that morning even. I was found from a local AngularJS meetup, and someone at the company was trying to gently prod me towards interviewing with them over the course of months...which wasn't so much of an interview process as seeing whether I was interested, since they clearly wanted me for my expertise.

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benched 13y ago

I didn't have to write a line of code during interviews for my current job. It felt like they looked at my resume and concluded it wouldn't add anything. I did, however, had to write code to solve a non-trivial, job-related problem, as a pre-interview screening step. If I hadn't had to write any code at all, I think I might have felt a little uncomfortable. Like, is everybody really sure about this?