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That's appealing. If you handed me a pen and paper and asked me to code, I'd leave. It bears essentially no relation to my work day-to-day.

edw519 11y ago
Thanks for proving my point. If you won't code for me in an interview, why would I possibly be interested in you? Thanks for saving me so much time.
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  - edw519 11y ago
    Everyone and their dog is trying to hire me. Good. Go work for them. My "prima donna" filter is working nicely.
    - logfromblammo 11y ago
      I'd love to work for a retriever or pointer. Herders or guard dogs would probably be okay, too. Terriers would be nightmare bosses. I can only assume that I have never noticed these putative canine job postings because I have been looking (or smelling) in the wrong place. At the interview, should I attempt to alter my personal odor, or leave it as is? Will I be asked to sketch out an implementation of "disc fetch" on the whiteboard, or will I be given an actual flying disc and a long hallway? Should I remove experience working for cats from my resume, or leave it in?
- Bahamut 11y ago
  He/she didn't say he/she wouldn't code during an interview, just only made a commentary about his/her reaction if expected to do so with pen and paper. I think I might walk out too, because it's clear that power will be exerted on any candidates who choose to subject themselves to it - it says a lot about the type of work environment that is fostered.
- lostcolony 11y ago
  Thanks for being so upfront about your expectations; it saves applicants so much time, too.
- krisdol 11y ago
  I've had to code for interviews where I was given a project to complete in my own time, and then talk about it later if it was a good solution. I aced that process and got the job. I bombed the whiteboard/paper tech interview when I was first invited to interview at my current job (lots of ex co-workers here), and was declined as a candidate. Months later I was invited again, this time just to start, skipping the interview. I'm finishing up my last week here and have nothing but praise and recommendations from my higher-ups, yet I would have never had a shot if people I worked with in the past didn't work here and reach out to me. Actually at one of the places I recently interviewed, I got past the phone screens, cultural interviews, and even a google hangouts/screen-share session where I coded live while talking about the solution -- but I still had a 'get on the whiteboard and write some twist on academic sort functions' and of course froze up more and more with each time I used the eraser. I'm confident I would have done better with a computer. I don't code on paper and whiteboards. Most of us aren't trained to, and state-dependent learning is a real thing. You cannot expect most people to perform as well in a drastically different environment from how they typically do their job.

edw519 11y ago

Thanks for proving my point. If you won't code for me in an interview, why would I possibly be interested in you? Thanks for saving me so much time.

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- edw519 11y ago
  Everyone and their dog is trying to hire me. Good. Go work for them. My "prima donna" filter is working nicely.
  - logfromblammo 11y ago
    I'd love to work for a retriever or pointer. Herders or guard dogs would probably be okay, too. Terriers would be nightmare bosses. I can only assume that I have never noticed these putative canine job postings because I have been looking (or smelling) in the wrong place. At the interview, should I attempt to alter my personal odor, or leave it as is? Will I be asked to sketch out an implementation of "disc fetch" on the whiteboard, or will I be given an actual flying disc and a long hallway? Should I remove experience working for cats from my resume, or leave it in?
Bahamut 11y ago
He/she didn't say he/she wouldn't code during an interview, just only made a commentary about his/her reaction if expected to do so with pen and paper. I think I might walk out too, because it's clear that power will be exerted on any candidates who choose to subject themselves to it - it says a lot about the type of work environment that is fostered.
lostcolony 11y ago
Thanks for being so upfront about your expectations; it saves applicants so much time, too.
krisdol 11y ago
I've had to code for interviews where I was given a project to complete in my own time, and then talk about it later if it was a good solution. I aced that process and got the job. I bombed the whiteboard/paper tech interview when I was first invited to interview at my current job (lots of ex co-workers here), and was declined as a candidate. Months later I was invited again, this time just to start, skipping the interview. I'm finishing up my last week here and have nothing but praise and recommendations from my higher-ups, yet I would have never had a shot if people I worked with in the past didn't work here and reach out to me. Actually at one of the places I recently interviewed, I got past the phone screens, cultural interviews, and even a google hangouts/screen-share session where I coded live while talking about the solution -- but I still had a 'get on the whiteboard and write some twist on academic sort functions' and of course froze up more and more with each time I used the eraser. I'm confident I would have done better with a computer. I don't code on paper and whiteboards. Most of us aren't trained to, and state-dependent learning is a real thing. You cannot expect most people to perform as well in a drastically different environment from how they typically do their job.