Beekey Cheung is a software engineer with a large amount of enthusiasm for economics and a passion for education. He loves mentoring other programmers and is currently building an application to te...
Developers are definitely fortunate with the job market being the way it is. Even if that wasn't the case though, it is in the best interest of a company to create interviews where preparation isn't necessary. They want to measure the skills that a candidate has accrued over their career, not what they managed to cram in 2 weeks.
Someone brought up that new developers can't possibly do this. I agree mostly, but I think companies can still do something with the interview process here. You want new developers to have a strong thirst for learning. I once interviewed a bootcamp graduate who described an assignment where she refused to use a front end framework because she wanted to experience what it was like without one. Then she would know the full benefits the framework gave her.
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Developers are definitely fortunate with the job market being the way it is. Even if that wasn't the case though, it is in the best interest of a company to create interviews where preparation isn't necessary. They want to measure the skills that a candidate has accrued over their career, not what they managed to cram in 2 weeks.
Someone brought up that new developers can't possibly do this. I agree mostly, but I think companies can still do something with the interview process here. You want new developers to have a strong thirst for learning. I once interviewed a bootcamp graduate who described an assignment where she refused to use a front end framework because she wanted to experience what it was like without one. Then she would know the full benefits the framework gave her.