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Let'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 tha

Let'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 ago
No, 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.