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The Hiring Post
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#2This is a great writeup on a similar process:
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#3As somebody who agrees in theory with tptacek's posts and now this blog post, what I find very funny is how I perceive typical technical hiring, with the interview gauntlet, to still be way better than what some other industries must do. How the hell does anybody hire a teacher?
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#4Great post. I hate interviewing. I think a lot about it since I'm the type of person who performs horribly in an interview call when some person I've never met is asking me trivia questions on speaker phone...
One thing I wonder. Why are people being interviewed for technical positions in a google doc or whatever fake coding environment? Servers are cheap.
If you have to go the way of the technical phone interview, doesn't it make more sense to have both (interviewer and interviewee) parties SSH into a server and work together on some type of problem for an hour? The interviewer can even watch the candidate program or work in screen. This type of interview isn't perfect, but closed book "Programming Jeopardy" style interviews are just worse in every way.
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#5Great post. I hate interviewing. I think a lot about it since I'm the type of person who performs horribly in an interview call when some person I've never met is asking me trivia questions on speaker phone... One thing I wonder. Why are people being interviewed for technical positions in a google doc or whatever fake coding environment? Servers are cheap. If you have to go the way of the technical phone interview, d…
We use HackerRank, which has an in-browser IDE that can runs pretty much every language, has highlighting, etc.
I can't believe anyone would use Google Docs. Even if you don't care about your interviewees' experience, huge waste of dev time.
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#6As somebody who agrees in theory with tptacek's posts and now this blog post, what I find very funny is how I perceive typical technical hiring, with the interview gauntlet, to still be way better than what some other industries must do. How the hell does anybody hire a teacher?
By asking them to teach something and observing them do it.
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#7As somebody who agrees in theory with tptacek's posts and now this blog post, what I find very funny is how I perceive typical technical hiring, with the interview gauntlet, to still be way better than what some other industries must do. How the hell does anybody hire a teacher?
Teacher here. Good schools will ask you to teach a sample lesson on a particular subject and prep your own materials. Principals and other teachers will observe and give feedback. It's what I did to work at my current school, and we're one of the top performing schools in our state.
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#8Great post. I hate interviewing. I think a lot about it since I'm the type of person who performs horribly in an interview call when some person I've never met is asking me trivia questions on speaker phone... One thing I wonder. Why are people being interviewed for technical positions in a google doc or whatever fake coding environment? Servers are cheap. If you have to go the way of the technical phone interview, d…
We use HackerRank, which has an in-browser IDE that can runs pretty much every language, has highlighting, etc. I can't believe anyone would use Google Docs. Even if you don't care about your interviewees' experience, huge waste of dev time.
I once had a phone interview wherein I was required to write some code and then read it to the interviewer (character by character!) over the phone. I asked him whether it would make more sense for us to use etherpad (this was maybe five years ago), but he said no.
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We use HackerRank, which has an in-browser IDE that can runs pretty much every language, has highlighting, etc. I can't believe anyone would use Google Docs. Even if you don't care about your interviewees' experience, huge waste of dev time.
I once had a phone interview wherein I was required to write some code and then read it to the interviewer (character by character!) over the phone. I asked him whether it would make more sense for us to use etherpad (this was maybe five years ago), but he said no.
Have you ever had a productive phone screen? I think they might all be evil.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
We use HackerRank, which has an in-browser IDE that can runs pretty much every language, has highlighting, etc. I can't believe anyone would use Google Docs. Even if you don't care about your interviewees' experience, huge waste of dev time.
I once had a phone interview wherein I was required to write some code and then read it to the interviewer (character by character!) over the phone. I asked him whether it would make more sense for us to use etherpad (this was maybe five years ago), but he said no.
Be carful not to forget reading off a semi-colon. Syntax counts!