Same- to pass these coding interviews, I’d have to do weeks of studying crap I haven’t had to touch since my comp sci classes 15 years ago. But more importantly, evaluating on how well you cram on binary trees is so far removed from what actually makes a good candidate.https://twitter.com/mhartl/status/1228823973648953344 …
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What makes a good software engineering candidate? IMHO: They have an appreciation of their own mental limitations and have learned ways to deal with that and not bury themselves in their own mess of code and bad decisions. Rather than focus on clever code, they ask them selves
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questions like “is this problem even worth solving to begin with.” That is to say, they know that code is just a means to an end (solving problems). They embrace feedback, and more importantly reflect and act upon it. Finally, when faced with a problem,
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they persist knowing that the answe is out there and putting in the work is what’s valuable and not just being clever. None of this is really teased out in these whiteboard tests. And school/career pedigree is at best weakly correlated.
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