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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.

by edw519 11y ago

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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.

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.

by 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.