> A number of programmers have taken it Twitter to bring it to > everyone's, but particularly recruiter's, attention about the grueling > interview process in their field that relies heavily on technical > questions. > > David Heinemeier Hansson, a well-known programmer and the creator of > the popular Ruby on Rails coding framework, started it when he > tweeted, "Hello, my name is David. I would fail to write bubble sort > on a whiteboard. I look code up on the internet all the time. I don't > do riddles." Another coder added, "Hello, my name is Tim. I'm a lead > at Google with over 30 years coding experience and I need to look up > how to get length of a python string." Another coder chimed in, "Hello > my name is Mike, I'm a GDE and lead at NY Times, I don't know what np > complete means. Should I?" > > A feature story on The Outline adds: > >> This interview style, widely used by major tech companies including >> Google and Amazon, typically pits candidates against a whiteboard >> without access to reference material -- a scenario working >> programmers say is demoralizing and an unrealistic test of actual >> ability. People spend weeks preparing for this process, afraid that >> the interviewer will quiz them on the one obscure algorithm they >> haven't studied. " >> > A cottage industry has emerged that reminds us uncomfortably of SAT > prep," Karla Monterroso, VP of programs for Code2040, an organization > for black and Latino techies, wrote in a critique of the whiteboard > interview. [...] This means companies tend to favor recent computer > science grads from top-tier schools who have had time to cram; in > other words, it doesn't help diversify the field with women, older > people, and people of color. >
With links: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/17/03/01/1643251/programmers-are-confessing-their-coding-sins-to-protest-a-broken-job-interview-process