I am writing software for 25 years, and I can build anything I want, but I will fail any logic interview test I am not prepared for.
Last year someone called me for an interview for a new contract position, and ask me to do a test, I just closed the phone, not interested.
The thing is: someone spend days writing some logic question and it became so obvious to him, and then he comes and asks it in an interview expecting you to figure it out in 5 minutes :-) you do not want to work with such a person because he does not have the logic to calculate that :-)
Oh, this comment makes me feel better haha, I am not the only one at least. I don't know why many companies focus on this kind of tests or board logic tests instead of other skills
I think they do it because it's easy and it gives them a quantifiable result that they can put in a spreadsheet (and developers love numbers!) even if the questions have nothing to do with the actual job
I agree, that is quite common. I do a lot of interviews as a contractor (and always refuse to do take home sample projects for similar reasons)
What particularly annoys me (when I have seen it from the other side of the fence) is they often don't even ask their current developers to do the same test in order to calibrate the answers they get. Sometimes they are just trying to show their managers how proficient they are compared with all these "terrible candidates who can't even answer this question, which is so basic I could do it in 10 minutes [because I wrote it]"
And managers are impressed - "we have a real team of experts here, it's so difficult to find candidates that are good enough!" - give me a break! 😂
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I am writing software for 25 years, and I can build anything I want, but I will fail any logic interview test I am not prepared for.
Last year someone called me for an interview for a new contract position, and ask me to do a test, I just closed the phone, not interested.
The thing is: someone spend days writing some logic question and it became so obvious to him, and then he comes and asks it in an interview expecting you to figure it out in 5 minutes :-) you do not want to work with such a person because he does not have the logic to calculate that :-)
Oh, this comment makes me feel better haha, I am not the only one at least. I don't know why many companies focus on this kind of tests or board logic tests instead of other skills
I think they do it because it's easy and it gives them a quantifiable result that they can put in a spreadsheet (and developers love numbers!) even if the questions have nothing to do with the actual job
I agree, that is quite common. I do a lot of interviews as a contractor (and always refuse to do take home sample projects for similar reasons)
What particularly annoys me (when I have seen it from the other side of the fence) is they often don't even ask their current developers to do the same test in order to calibrate the answers they get. Sometimes they are just trying to show their managers how proficient they are compared with all these "terrible candidates who can't even answer this question, which is so basic I could do it in 10 minutes [because I wrote it]"
And managers are impressed - "we have a real team of experts here, it's so difficult to find candidates that are good enough!" - give me a break! 😂