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Why must it be "how you work on a day to day basis"? Why must interviews only be about exactly what you're being hired to do?
by diminoten 12y ago
Why must it be "how you work on a day to day basis"?
Why must interviews only be about exactly what you're being hired to do?
- collyw 12y agoI would like to think it is at least somewhat related to what I am doing, rather than a lucky dip of a question that I might get or might not. I am a way better software engineer than 15 years ago, yet I am worse at these sort of "challenges".
- diminoten 12y agoThere's a lot more to being a software engineer than coding competence, and timed questions reveal the non-coding competence parts of your abilities more than anything else. Perhaps you're not as good as you think.
- jschwartzi 12y agoLike what?
- diminoten 12y agoSeriously? Less than half of a software engineer's daily work is actually coding.
- jschwartzi 12y agoI mean what other components of your competence do the timed coding exercises reveal?
- diminoten 12y agoPrototyping, for one. Thought process. Creative thinking. Knowledge of relevant material. It may not do these better than other tests, but basically any "solve this in x minutes" questions are going to reveal behavior in a person.
- collyw 12y agoWhy does crate thinking have to done fast? I find my best and most creative solutions come randomly after thinking about them "in the background" for a while.
- diminoten 12y agoIt doesn't, you must not have read what I wrote. But if I can do the same creative thinking faster than you can, why would anyone bother waiting for you?