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Please stop the coding challenges

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261 points CrazyEmi | 3 comments | 15 Nov 24 15:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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paxys ◴[15 Nov 24 16:22 UTC] No.42148318[source]▶
The more people online complain about coding interviews, the more confident I am that they are the absolute best way to filter candidates for a software development job. Across the industry there are way too many talkers/pretenders/meeting schedulers and not enough people who can roll up their sleeves, jump into the code and actually get stuff done. And this problem becomes worse at higher levels. You can bitch about it all you want, but you aren't owed that cushy $500K/yr FAANG job. If you can't get yourself to brush up on basic programming and write some for loops then companies will simply move on to someone who will.
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1. dmvdoug ◴[15 Nov 24 16:45 UTC] No.42148544[source]▶
You: “Coding interviews are the absolute best way to filter job candidates for a software development job.”

TFA: Coding interviews are a standard way of hiring.

Also you: “Too many people in the software development industry don’t know what they’re doing.”

The lack of cognitive dissonance is remarkable.

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2. mrkeen ◴[15 Nov 24 17:37 UTC] No.42149015[source]▶
This is not cognitive dissonance.

GP is of the opinion that coding interviews filter out people who can't code.

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3. dmvdoug ◴[15 Nov 24 20:38 UTC] No.42150718[source]▶
And they also think the industry is full of people who can’t code. Despite the industry relying on a technique that purports to weed those people out. One might conclude, then, that maybe the technique isn’t as effective after all.