Google says tricky job interview brainteasers were ‘a waste of time’
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Re: Google says tricky job interview brainteasers were ‘a waste of time’
#2The software industry is odd. Things change so fast, and new things comes out so often, but at the same time bad ideas masquerading as universally applicable best practices get adopted and linger forever. Google and Microsoft favoring this style of interview has given it incredible weight. I fully expect some interviewers will be giving this kind of interview in 10-20 years, still thinking they are doing the right/safe thing.
Re: Google says tricky job interview brainteasers were ‘a waste of time’
#3Discussed previously at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5911017 (submitted 23 hours ago, 265 comments)
Re: Google says tricky job interview brainteasers were ‘a waste of time’
#4I hope they will soon see the difference between Software Engineer and Algorist (TopCoder(tm) sportsmen)
Re: Google says tricky job interview brainteasers were ‘a waste of time’
#5The software industry is odd. Things change so fast, and new things comes out so often, but at the same time bad ideas masquerading as universally applicable best practices get adopted and linger forever . Google and Microsoft favoring this style of interview has given it incredible weight. I fully expect some interviewers will be giving this kind of interview in 10-20 years, still thinking they are doing the right/s…
I think the problem with software industry is inertia. Someone well respected says everything is an object (or use dynamic typing everywhere, or functional programming, or node.js) and majority will blindly follow without ever thinking about more suitable alternatives.
Re: Google says tricky job interview brainteasers were ‘a waste of time’
#6Discussed previously at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5911017 (submitted 23 hours ago, 265 comments)
I second this magical de-duping technology called "corin_".
If there's a better way to keep dups from the front page, someone please tell me . . .
Re: Google says tricky job interview brainteasers were ‘a waste of time’
#7The software industry is odd. Things change so fast, and new things comes out so often, but at the same time bad ideas masquerading as universally applicable best practices get adopted and linger forever . Google and Microsoft favoring this style of interview has given it incredible weight. I fully expect some interviewers will be giving this kind of interview in 10-20 years, still thinking they are doing the right/s…
> new things comes out so often
New names for old things come out often. New things are pretty rare.
Re: Google says tricky job interview brainteasers were ‘a waste of time’
#8The software industry is odd. Things change so fast, and new things comes out so often, but at the same time bad ideas masquerading as universally applicable best practices get adopted and linger forever . Google and Microsoft favoring this style of interview has given it incredible weight. I fully expect some interviewers will be giving this kind of interview in 10-20 years, still thinking they are doing the right/s…
> new things comes out so often New names for old things come out often. New things are pretty rare.
New concepts yeah, you're right. But we are endlessly barraged with new tools, frameworks, libraries, etc., all of which have their own details to learn which is the "new" I had in mind.
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#9The HN mods should once again change the headline to the nytimes article as the original source just like the last time this was brought up. Despite the fact that for many, this was the interesting part. This is clearly blog spam and link bait.
Not changing it would be hypocritical at best.
Re: Google says tricky job interview brainteasers were ‘a waste of time’
#10I'm proud of them for reflecting inward.