throwaway298477

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by throwaway298477 6y ago
That definitely has not been my experience at all. My experience is that almost every place I've interviewed requires both a coding project and at least one whiteboard interview, with open-source as a huge plus in your favor. Maybe i
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by throwaway298477 6y ago
You're just describing leetcode here. Not something most people even do in their day-to-day. A lot of frontend devs don't even work with the DOM directly after having spent years with React. Could they do it? probably. Are they pr
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by throwaway298477 6y ago
Except when the candidate isn't told that they will have a timed coding interview in advance and in general what it would be. I've been asked to write a full-stack app from scratch, and I spent like half of the time debugging the
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by throwaway298477 6y ago
> wouldn't that imply that it's their job to clarify the nebulous spec? Maybe, except when you try to clarify and their answer is that it's open-ended -- and yet they want something super specific in the end. And the super
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by throwaway298477 6y ago
I don't want to sound cynical, but is the interview process likely to change any time soon? Looking at the HN history, it's been a better part of a decade, if not longer, since people have been complaining about the hiring process
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by throwaway298477 6y ago
Because it's not objective? Everyone seems to have very different opinions of what good or bad code looks like, what's overengineered and what isn't. Why is the problem even asking for AI? are they applying for an AI position