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It's not the blog post content that people are reacting to (which I agree was edifying), it's the attitude toward interviews. No one is complaining about or cr
by jnbiche 12y ago
It's not the blog post content that people are reacting to (which I agree was edifying), it's the attitude toward interviews.
No one is complaining about or criticising his code or his discussion of the Towers of Hanoi solution (although some skepticism has been expressed about the exact speedup he's getting). I'm quite sure the man has forgotten more about embedded programming than I know.
- thaumaturgy 12y agoLet's agree that the tone of his article could use a little work. What about the substance of it? I read his article as, "too many candidates don't realize that recursive solutions are better than iterative ones now." If that's true, it seems like a big deal. He's not really arguing for knowledge of some arcane language feature or framework widget; this would be a fundamental aspect of programming methodology, something that might be broadly applicable. edit: sorry, I just realized we're talking at cross-purposes. Yeah, his approach to interviews could maybe use some work. I just didn't read that as what the article was about, so I was ignoring that as a conversational topic.
- jnbiche 12y agoNo, I agree with you 100% that the blog is very interesting. I'll probably check out his code in greater detail. But developers are really getting tired of these types of interviews and interviewers. I can just feel the anger and frustration in others I know rising. It's morally and ethically wrong to make formal complaints to Congress about developer shortages and then turn around and exclude well-qualified candidates because hiring devs are clinging to some deprecated model of interviewing that has a mediocre true positive rate but an awfully, awfully high false negative rate.