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Please stop the coding challenges

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paxys ◴[] 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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0xmarcin ◴[] No.42148670[source]
Maybe there were in the past, currently there is entire industry there to help you game the system.

- Cracking the coding interview.

- Elements of programming interviews in Java|Python|whatever...

- leetcode & other sides with paid premium subscriptions...

- mock interview bootcamps...

It's no longer about skill, it's only about gaming the system.

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AnotherGoodName ◴[] No.42149192[source]
Typical table stakes prep work for a high paying job with a lot of competition.

I’m serious. It’s not even guaranteed you’ll get the job if you do the above but everyone who passed the big tech interviews will acknowledge they fucking studied for it. What do expect here?

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1. zelphirkalt ◴[] No.42159623[source]
But who is talking about big tech? Aren't we talking about just most companies here? I have had some interviews and every single one of them had broken hiring processes, silly reviewers, who get stuck up at things like you not using their favorite code autoformatter, for code that is 1 screen long, or did the ghost job thing, where they apparently did not actually want to hire anyone.