@mxcl i refuse all whiteboarding in interviews because it sets the expectation that i am some sort of trick-performing pet for a company
Google: 90% of our engineers use the software you wrote (Homebrew), but you can’t invert a binary tree on a whiteboard so fuck off.
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@TheBuzzSaw if you cant gauge my technical skills based on a resume + old projects + interview conversation, i dont want to work for you. -
@dijama If you can't be bothered to demonstrate even basic technical competency in a simple interview, we're not interested anyway -
@cdaragorn good! its a mutual disinterest. i should start prefacing my applications with ‘i won’t whiteboard in interviews’ to save time.
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@mxcl if I were you, I would have flipped the whiteboard upside down and said, "here, I inverted this one for you". - 1 more reply
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@mxcl (╯°□°)╯︵ ǝǝɹʇ ʎɹɐuıq - 1 more reply
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@the_real_rotor@mxcl@tef@rnewman OTOH, reading The Algorithm Design Manual is its own reward.http://www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steven-Skiena/dp/1849967202 …
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@mxcl I had a similar experience elsewhere. I ended up doing a homework assignment to prove myself. Apparently my GitHub wasn't enough. -
@MeltingIce I would take a homework assignment over insane interviews any day. -
@AndrewMcHarg me too, except they made me do the stupid interviews first. -
@MeltingIce That is unfortunate. Sounds like an interview gone awry!
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@mxcl they don't want brilliance. They want hoop jumpers for maximum malleability. -
@iosengineer@mxcl Google is carefully noting who starred what. -
@ChiefScientist@mxcl me and everyone else
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