Interview Street (YC S11) streamlines the search for great programmers
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Re: Interview Street (YC S11) streamlines the search for great programmers
#2I love the idea, running into a bug though. I'm getting a "Compilation Error" message on my submission, but it compiles fine locally, and clicking "Compile Message" to see the error just brings up a blank window. (Username: andrewbadr, using Chrome 13 on OSX)
Re: Interview Street (YC S11) streamlines the search for great programmers
#3What's there to stop blogs with problem solutions or how-to's from popping up?
Re: Interview Street (YC S11) streamlines the search for great programmers
#4I love the idea, running into a bug though. I'm getting a "Compilation Error" message on my submission, but it compiles fine locally, and clicking "Compile Message" to see the error just brings up a blank window. (Username: andrewbadr, using Chrome 13 on OSX)
Checking it up right away.
Re: Interview Street (YC S11) streamlines the search for great programmers
#5I love the idea, running into a bug though. I'm getting a "Compilation Error" message on my submission, but it compiles fine locally, and clicking "Compile Message" to see the error just brings up a blank window. (Username: andrewbadr, using Chrome 13 on OSX)
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Re: Interview Street (YC S11) streamlines the search for great programmers
#6What's there to stop blogs with problem solutions or how-to's from popping up?
Very little. However, if companies are making their own problems and the same set aren't used for every job posting, it would be harder to make a general how-to for every problem on the site. It also would probably not be that hard to determine which problems have publicly available solutions, or if the solution an applicant uses is publicly available - for that matter, if I were an employee of this company I might advocate for creating fake solution websites (with flawed solutions), so that applicants who were simply copying code could be easily detected.
Re: Interview Street (YC S11) streamlines the search for great programmers
#7I'm not sure that this effectively replaces any part of the traditional process (resume--phone interview(s)--onsite interview(s)). I guess it comes closest to replacing the phone screen, but my understanding is that the goal of the phone screen is to establish "can this person actually write code" which I don't really think this does given how easy it would likely be to cheat--either by finding a solution online or by getting someone else to do it for you.
Re: Interview Street (YC S11) streamlines the search for great programmers
#8How is this different from Codility?
Re: Interview Street (YC S11) streamlines the search for great programmers
#9I get frustrated because I am pretty horrible (in my mind) at these kind of math puzzles ("Given N numbers , [N0 and KYour company is a web app, I can write web apps; why am I solving problem sets from undergrad Discrete Math to demonstrate competence? Why not have the tasks be like "Use AJAX to pull down a users last 10 tweets and display them on a web page"?
Maybe it's because the only samples are generic and not submitted by the companies, but I was hoping for a bit more relevance to the intended job duties than yet-another-interview-puzzle.
Re: Interview Street (YC S11) streamlines the search for great programmers
#10I'm not sure that this effectively replaces any part of the traditional process (resume--phone interview(s)--onsite interview(s)). I guess it comes closest to replacing the phone screen, but my understanding is that the goal of the phone screen is to establish "can this person actually write code" which I don't really think this does given how easy it would likely be to cheat--either by finding a solution online or b…
This helps for campus placements where you can't Realky get others to code for you.