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"This was the first leadership interview loop in the past 12 months (20+ companies) in which anyone had asked me to write code." Interesting data point for the
by dadkins 4y ago
"This was the first leadership interview loop in the past 12 months (20+ companies) in which anyone had asked me to write code."
Interesting data point for the question: at what point in your career will you stop being asked to write code on a whiteboard to prove you aren't lying on your resume.
- prepend 4y agoI’ve never been through an interview cycle where candidates didn’t lie about this, so I assume pretty high. It always boggled my mind that people would claim programming skills but not be able to write hello world.
- adave 4y agoIf its not the pressure cooker, this is trick question and i am going to blast you for missing the return and void in parenthesis types question then we can partially blame the candidate. Many of us have faltered like this once or twice unless its an outright lie kind of situation.
- prepend 4y agoI’m not a fan of trick questions. It’s usually something as simple as “you have 10 minutes write out a program in any language you like that takes in a string and prints out the reverse.” The idea is just a litmus test and I don’t think it’s useful for filtering anything other than liars. I never had someone completely freeze up.