I have really mixed/negative feelings about interviews in general. I find so much discrepancy between what I am being asked during the interview and what I am being asked to do in my work that it stuns me. Simple example that I have been through many times:
During the interview, I am being asked all sorts of questions like what is SOLID? What is DDD? They ask me to design an auction system etc. I get the job and what do I do? Sit in the logs, trying to trace a race condition or trying to hunt down a fronted bug with a scrollbar appearing only on Safari. Well, all that knowledge was really needed for the job, right? Your company does not even implement DDD...
Coding challenges are just as useless. I mean I had to write merge-sort algorithms, only during my studies and on interviews. I could actually ask my professors to rename their courses from "Introduction to algorithms" to "Basic interview questions".
I think developers should be given access to some parts of your code and asked to fix/refactor some code for money. They would submit their PR's for code reviews. If you, as an employer, would be satisfied from their work then a job contract would be signed. You are not buying a cat in a bag and they do not have to do useless things for free.
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I have really mixed/negative feelings about interviews in general. I find so much discrepancy between what I am being asked during the interview and what I am being asked to do in my work that it stuns me. Simple example that I have been through many times:
During the interview, I am being asked all sorts of questions like what is SOLID? What is DDD? They ask me to design an auction system etc. I get the job and what do I do? Sit in the logs, trying to trace a race condition or trying to hunt down a fronted bug with a scrollbar appearing only on Safari. Well, all that knowledge was really needed for the job, right? Your company does not even implement DDD...
Coding challenges are just as useless. I mean I had to write merge-sort algorithms, only during my studies and on interviews. I could actually ask my professors to rename their courses from "Introduction to algorithms" to "Basic interview questions".
I think developers should be given access to some parts of your code and asked to fix/refactor some code for money. They would submit their PR's for code reviews. If you, as an employer, would be satisfied from their work then a job contract would be signed. You are not buying a cat in a bag and they do not have to do useless things for free.