I don't think that realtime coding challenges are the solution for the technical screening. I understand they help screening masses of candidates but they can't be the only way.
A lot of people, myself included, are not good at those puzzles and they get nervous if two strangers are looking at them while they fumble through syntax on a whiteboard.
I would probably still be a wannabe developer if the bar was that at every company or I would have chosen another line of work altogether.
What I'm good at is developing real world applications, reasoning on hard problems and designing abstractions. Most quizzes are not that.
People are people, they don't always respond the same way to the same things.
I also think we focus too much on the technical side which is 100% important, but not the only important part.
I've been on an onsite interview (which I failed) for a big company years ago in which you go through consecutive rounds of whiteboard interviews through the day (4 or 5).
Nobody talked to me about software design or company culture or ethics or technology in general.
With time I realised that even if I would have aced the whiteboard challenges and got hired I would have probably hated it there after a while.
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I don't think that realtime coding challenges are the solution for the technical screening. I understand they help screening masses of candidates but they can't be the only way.
A lot of people, myself included, are not good at those puzzles and they get nervous if two strangers are looking at them while they fumble through syntax on a whiteboard.
I would probably still be a wannabe developer if the bar was that at every company or I would have chosen another line of work altogether.
What I'm good at is developing real world applications, reasoning on hard problems and designing abstractions. Most quizzes are not that.
People are people, they don't always respond the same way to the same things.
I also think we focus too much on the technical side which is 100% important, but not the only important part.
I've been on an onsite interview (which I failed) for a big company years ago in which you go through consecutive rounds of whiteboard interviews through the day (4 or 5).
Nobody talked to me about software design or company culture or ethics or technology in general.
With time I realised that even if I would have aced the whiteboard challenges and got hired I would have probably hated it there after a while.