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Coding Interviews are Broken

Ben Awad

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Ben Awad argues that algorithm-style coding interviews are an ineffective way to evaluate software engineering candidates for most tech companies.

Algorithm style coding interviews are very common in the tech industry, but they are a crappy method to evaluate candidates. Might work well for FANG (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google), but the rest of the tech companies are throwing away valid applicants. ​ ​ ---- Follow me online: voidpet.com/benawad #benawad

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u/lsazin r/Frontend • Recommends

On “Frontend interviews just suck...”

Nobody say you shouldn't do test in interviews but I think most test are shit. Why do you need to solve some problem with a complex algorithm with vanilla javascript (and you can't even use google in some companies which is stupid) in less than 1 hour when the job is designing apps with x framework?[ Why not just asking theorical questions and then making a test specific to that framework]? Very few companies do that. The interview system is complete bullshit.
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u/Ullerkkin r/compsci • Recommends

Here’s the web developers thoughts on the “difficult” coding interviews. What does r/compsci think?
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