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Mock Interview with Shawn McGrath

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  • Recommended by 7 people: 6 on Hacker News and 1 on Lobsters.
  • A classic. People kept recommending it from 2017 to 2023.
  • Presented by Casey Muratori, founder of Molly Rocket
  • An opinion. It argues one side of a question engineers disagree on.

Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.

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Casey Muratori conducts a mock technical interview with game developer Shawn McGrath to demonstrate a less confrontational and more effective interviewing format.

A live demonstration of a less confrontational programmer interview format that still gets deep into technical details. Interviewee: Shawn McGrath (twitter.com/sssmcgrath) Interviewer: Casey Muratori (mollyrocket.com/casey) Technique: Chris Hecker (chrishecker.com/Homepage)

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7 people recommend this

What people say. Engineers recommend this as an excellent demonstration of a technical interview format that focuses on how candidates actually think and work.

jblowon Hacker News • Recommends

On “Ask HN: What are good software architecture interview questions?”

It's not specific questions that are important so much as the process. You want the questions to be tailored to the candidate. See this example: link to this video
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On “Tech Interview Torture Chamber”

I don't know why you're being downvoted. This is essentially what I suggest for an interview process and I'm not the only one. link to this video
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On “Google's interview system: it's not about solving the problem”

To any hiring managers that might be reading this, please watch this alternative method of interviewing: link to this video
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On “Ask HN: What is a better approach to interviewing?”

Casey Muratori showcased a new model of a programming interview here: link to this video It shows to the interviewer how a given person works in a programming job, how they researched solutions to the problems they were faced with in the past etc.; as opposed to the usual exercises that have nothing to do with the job and won't really show you how well they will perform. It's also less confrontational which should put the interviewee at more ease.
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On “Why is recruiting developers so difficult?”

There are ways of discovering if somebody can code without making them do fizzbuzz. This is a good process: link to this video
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On “NN-SVG”

This is great! I'm currently learning 2D graphics from scratch (making vector art software), can anyone recommend any related resources? I found this interview (one relevant bit at 29:55) very interesting. Shawn McGrath did the graphics code for the game N++ which is very vectory, so he found efficient ways to render it on a GPU. link to this video
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jmon Lobsters • Recommends

A less confrontational programmer interview format
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