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I took my linkedin profile down b/c I was tired of dealing with recruiters. I work for a top 5 Fortune 500 company making ~70k 1.5 years out of college in ATL.
by alistproducer2 11y ago
I took my linkedin profile down b/c I was tired of dealing with recruiters. I work for a top 5 Fortune 500 company making ~70k 1.5 years out of college in ATL.
I've interviewed with a couple companies just to see what it's like out there. I usually ask for some ridiculous salary b/c that's the only way I would leave my current job.
I find the interviewing process stupid. I had one company ask me to code up a fully functioning Angular site from scratch in some jsfiddle clone that I had never seen in 1 hour. It took me around 5-7 minutes just figuring how to work with the fiddle clone.
All the while I went in there as a guy who had written a pretty good Angular JS clone from scratch - recursive compiler and all. You would think that would be proof enough that I am pretty good at JS/front end dev. I just laugh at these interviews.
- kzisme 11y agoDo you consider these sorts of interviews fair? I don't see how re-writing something you've already showed them accounts for many things (aside from working under a time constraint)
- alistproducer2 11y agoI don't know if I thought of it as unfair as much as self-defeating on the employer's part. In the specific case of that interview, I told them upfront that I was not an expert in the practice of AngularJS. I understand the concepts of Angular at a very high level, as evidenced by writing a competing framework with more advanced modules and superior algorithms. Why they would then sit me down and ask me to code up a full site in a hour is beyond me. This is something I would think is a legit request of a candidate who came in saying they were an Angular expert. But why waste your time on person who has already told you they don't have that skill set?