The horrifically dystopian world of software engineering interviews
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The interview with Giant Search and Advertising Company ended in flames. I couldn’t solve the problem. But that was only the beginning of the madness this year.
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The interview with Giant Search and Advertising Company ended in flames. I couldn’t solve the problem. But that was only the beginning of the madness this year.
I think that's a pretty accurate,clear and well written article from someone who is just starting out in software.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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The interview with Giant Search and Advertising Company ended in flames. I couldn’t solve the problem. But that was only the beginning of the madness this year.
A fun (and frighteningly accurate) read.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A fun (and frighteningly accurate) read.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
For sure, and it's an excellent article... asking someone to write code at an interview will get you my "how much money do you have?" look. And I'm far too old to play games with a 28 year old something project manager prick who thinks he knows it all... yeah, had one of those interviews. Even helped their engineering team solve a bug they'd been fighting for a week... but these people were smoking the OO weed and off into inheritance diagrams instead of working code.
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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The interview with Giant Search and Advertising Company ended in flames. I couldn’t solve the problem. But that was only the beginning of the madness this year.
Kent must have used the word "did" in his blurb as it has gone missing.
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Kent must have used the word "did" in his blurb as it has gone missing.
Dang. Caught it on the version that mailed out, but not this forum version. Ah well, you're not missing much: "Whiteboards deemed awful"
TTFN - Kent
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The interview with Giant Search and Advertising Company ended in flames. I couldn’t solve the problem. But that was only the beginning of the madness this year.
The experience of the writer just elephanting pisses me off. I can tell you for a fact that if I had guys slinging algorithms around like asked for in the interview, I'd be very concerned. Why? I happen to be a grunt EE who writes embedded s/w and HMIs. My products NEVER die. Fancy code gives me the squirts. Stick with the basics, don't come up with fancy embedded classes within .h files. You might die (I might be a suspect) before I ever retire. I am so tired of fancy code that is unsupportable.
Charlie Gilley <italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape... "Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783 “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759