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Why worry about tech questions? If you're a half-decent programmer and a half decent learner, memorize the top 20 questions in 2 days and you're good to go. Bam

Why worry about tech questions? If you're a half-decent programmer and a half decent learner, memorize the top 20 questions in 2 days and you're good to go. Bam! Suddenly you're a standard deviation above the competition. Don't complain about a system when you can game that system to your advantage! Also, tech questions are a filter, you can only pass a tech interview in two ways: 1) Actually be competent, know and understand all that stuff, or be able to work it out really quickly without having heard the question before (which is much preferable!). 2) Be willing to take some time to prepare for a tech interview, even if you don't agree with how that interview is being done. Either way, it says something about you. #2 tells me that at least you're willing to spend a bit of your own time preparing for that interview and that you probably, actually, want to work in this business. If you're not even willing to do that, stop wasting my damn time.

zura 12y ago
#2 tells you nothing about the ability of the candidate to do the actual job. In fact, mostly it is assumed that the candidate should prepare for the interview (i.e. #2). Instead of this, maybe you should concentrate to come up with better interviews which tells you that the candidate is a good fit AS-IS for the given position?
qwertyboy 12y ago
First of all, if your business wants me to memorize stuff that has nothing to do with my job so that we can both engage in a game of pretend, I don't want to work there. Who knows what other stupid shit you'll make me do. But what really alarmed me was the following sentence: > Don't complain about a system when you can game that system to your advantage! This is not only morally dubious, it can be downright dangerous. A broken system is unstable, and can quickly turn against you. If you see a fire in your neighbours yard you should do something about it, even if he is a total asshole.

zura 12y ago

#2 tells you nothing about the ability of the candidate to do the actual job. In fact, mostly it is assumed that the candidate should prepare for the interview (i.e. #2). Instead of this, maybe you should concentrate to come up with better interviews which tells you that the candidate is a good fit AS-IS for the given position?

qwertyboy 12y ago

First of all, if your business wants me to memorize stuff that has nothing to do with my job so that we can both engage in a game of pretend, I don't want to work there. Who knows what other stupid shit you'll make me do. But what really alarmed me was the following sentence: > Don't complain about a system when you can game that system to your advantage! This is not only morally dubious, it can be downright dangerous. A broken system is unstable, and can quickly turn against you. If you see a fire in your neighbours yard you should do something about it, even if he is a total asshole.