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Discussion on: Why I Don't Prepare For Job Interviews

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Jan Wedel

I absolutely agree. I did the same for the last couple of jobs I was invited for an interview. However, I think this only works because we're in the comfortable situation that there are more jobs than good developers.

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Beekey Cheung

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.