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Discussions as interviews are more revealing that simple tests. So what if I can't implement a red/black tree of the to of my head. Doing A free form walk through of some hypothetical product level problems give hints about how a person thinks, how a person interacts with others, and something about honesty as well (never claim to know something you don't). Every developer uses the web every day as a resource. It's stupid to use an interview to cover that area. BTW, in my now 4th decade on the industry, I've never had to implement a red/black tree for a job.
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@Root No, like "implement this shit on a whiteboard. What do you mean, you don't want to do this on a whiteboard? I'm HR I have no fucking idea that making someone write code on a whiteboard is useless."
I'm glad to have not had an interview with code tests yet, rather, I had an interview with discussion as @monkeyboy mentioned. -
Also, LinkedIn is a disadvantage to anyone who is looking for work. That platform is literally just helping HR people discriminate.
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Root825085y@kescherRant That was a joke lol
Whiteboarding sucks. I've had to do it so many times and it's always bloody useless. -
haze2715y"Implement this data structure you learned at uni and don't remember by its name" is a shit, not a test
Seems like companies want to imitate Google and others.
But Google uses practical issues and interviewers look at problem-solving techniques, how the person thinks (looking at edge cases, going back and seeing their own mistakes), NOT at remembering some strange structures.
[When I was younger I was at "talented young" group meetings at Google, MS, and Facebook. They talked about those whiteboard tests a lot, to encourage us to apply to internships and later to work.]
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