Coding for 20 years | Working for startups for 10 years | Team leader and mentor | More information about me: https://thevaluable.dev/page/about/
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For now, I write mostly on my blog about foundations and soft skills, but sometimes I just think going full blown into this problem.
I'm coding professionally for 10 years, and for 10 years I had to endure these interviews. People were globally happy to work with me. Nobody really complained about my skills. Some companies would love me to come back.
I'm not the best, but I like what I do. It pushes me to learn more, to try to be better, to try to help my peers. But I'm so useless in interviews. I'm so tired to code the usual fizzbuzz or to balance binary tree. To me, it only indicates that the team I will work with is composed of people who were hired based on random tests, and that the company has no idea how a developer can bring value.
The last company I applied for, they asked me to pass a test for 4 to 5 hours. Not payed, of course. Another one: coding test of one hour on Hackerrank, about algorithms they would never use. I have hundred of examples like that.
For now, I write mostly on my blog about foundations and soft skills, but sometimes I just think going full blown into this problem.
I'm coding professionally for 10 years, and for 10 years I had to endure these interviews. People were globally happy to work with me. Nobody really complained about my skills. Some companies would love me to come back.
I'm not the best, but I like what I do. It pushes me to learn more, to try to be better, to try to help my peers. But I'm so useless in interviews. I'm so tired to code the usual fizzbuzz or to balance binary tree. To me, it only indicates that the team I will work with is composed of people who were hired based on random tests, and that the company has no idea how a developer can bring value.
The last company I applied for, they asked me to pass a test for 4 to 5 hours. Not payed, of course. Another one: coding test of one hour on Hackerrank, about algorithms they would never use. I have hundred of examples like that.
This was my rant. I wrote an article more or less related some time ago, if you're curious.
I'll check it out. thanks
That was a great article. thank you for sharing