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No, I lean in the opposite direction - I would be more inclined towards employment opportunities which have a reasonable coding challenge as part of the hiring
by jameshiew 3y ago
No, I lean in the opposite direction - I would be more inclined towards employment opportunities which have a reasonable coding challenge as part of the hiring process. In my experience, there is a strong correlation between how technically challenging the hiring process is and how good a place is to work as an engineer. A reasonable coding challenge is a signal that there are competent engineers within the organization (in order to be able to come up with and mark such challenges), and that the organization values engineering capability to some degree.
Of course, there are exceptions to this. I'm also explicitly excluding here employers who outsource the technical challenge to a third party like leetcode.
- b20000 3y agothere is no correlation between passing leetcode type interviews and actual software development skills
- roland35 3y agoThat's ridiculous! Obviously not every software engineer knows algorithms and data structures, but if you do pass a leet code question you have at least some minimum of skill. It's shocking how many interviews I've done where the candidate can barely code anything unfortunately, so it is absolutely worthwhile.
- b20000 3y agoall it means is that you repeatedly practiced a set of problems and solutions and are able to quickly reproduce them. it does not mean you have the experience, creativity and insight to create something new and innovative.
- roland35 3y agoHaving done many coding interviews I can assure you there is more to it than memorizing a problem and solution. I don't see how asking someone who is applying for a software engineer job to do a miniature software engineering task is controversial!
- b20000 3y agoalso your second paragraph makes it clear you are biased which is another reason to refuse to do coding interviews from my perspective.
- roland35 3y agoThat's totally your choice! It worked out for me though. A few weeks of studying algorithms changed my career.