Which is bad in my opinion ... "tell me something about yourself" is incredibly meaningful when done right. The puzzles and the skills tests are valuable tools, but we're not algorithmic robots which are hired only to crank out lines of code, that's pretty dehumanizing I would say.
There's more to critical, strategic and abstract thinking (and more to good personality traits) than solving an algorithmic puzzle (and please don't test rote memorization of standard algorithms like being able to reproduce a quicksort from scratch, that's theoretical knowledge which is completely useless in real life).
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Yes. Seems like this comes even before “Tell me something about yourself” 🙆🏻♂️
Which is bad in my opinion ... "tell me something about yourself" is incredibly meaningful when done right. The puzzles and the skills tests are valuable tools, but we're not algorithmic robots which are hired only to crank out lines of code, that's pretty dehumanizing I would say.
There's more to critical, strategic and abstract thinking (and more to good personality traits) than solving an algorithmic puzzle (and please don't test rote memorization of standard algorithms like being able to reproduce a quicksort from scratch, that's theoretical knowledge which is completely useless in real life).