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And yet, all the rage in hiring processes is to present some ridiculous coding problem and hire the first person who can guess the right answer quickly and expl
by drewcrawford 17y ago
And yet, all the rage in hiring processes is to present some ridiculous coding problem and hire the first person who can guess the right answer quickly and explain it over the phone within 30 seconds of thinking of it.
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for thinking on your feet, but if you do anything remotely hard at your company you need to hire people who are willing to experiment rather than arguing the first solution that comes into their head.
(Sorry, still a little bitter about that last interview...)
- calcnerd256 17y agoThanks for that comment. It's always important to compare our metrics with reality. So if we are selecting in a way that punishes the right way to do things, complaining about it is an appropriate first step.
- psyklic 17y agoThe author's notion of "experimenting" is "debugging". I'd rather have someone write it correctly the first time than have to debug it; however, knowing how to debug well is also essential.