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What if we had a site where you are required to solve duplicated production bugs that other developers have faced?

Patrick Wendo on September 01, 2022

We know all about Leetcode and Codewars and how these tend to train developers in abstract problem solving, but I haven't met a website that presen...
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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard • Edited

What if we had a site where you are required to solve duplicated production bugs that other developers have faced?

What if we had this, but we even get paid for solving the issues?
We could call that "paid work".

Seriously that's a good idea though.

Much better to identify candidates than websites like leetcode who are completely useless(*).

Just propose them to do a couple of days of consulting with you. Paid of course because unpaid work is always immoral.

(*) Go to therapy here leetcodetherapy.com/

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Patrick Wendo • Edited

Yea, this one made me laugh a bit.

There is probably a lot I am missing with regards to implementation, but I think it would be a step in the right direction with regards to improving interviews.

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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard • Edited

A step forward but that doesn't address the main issue

For a candidate to get the job, they need to give some proof that they will be able to learn to do the job. Obviously. But candidates overfocus on this part. Lots of people stress out even if they are good enough. In fact they don't have to know it all, they will have plenty of opportunities to learn on the job

On the other hand most candidates under invest in their "getting a job" skills. they are terrible at that because you don't learn that at school and you don't change jobs every year.

Nothing "slightly better than leetcode" will fix the second problem which is more important.

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Aaron Reese

Great idea, but it goes further than that (and not sure how you would test for this...) I had a potential customer who has been on at her vendor for getting on two years to explain/fix why the payroll summary report didn't match the bank payroll payment. I got he problem resolved in under half an hour on the phone to support desk just using the correct technical terminology rather than the business terminology which support desk didn't really understand. No coding no answers, just asking the right questions

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Wade Zimmerman

It would be interesting to see a website like this. Sometimes I go on StackOverflow just to try to solve random problems. The problems with bounties are usually pretty difficult to answer.

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Joe Mainwaring

It's not a bad idea, so long as your working with resources and applications which you can easily configure the state. Whether that's bad data in a database or a misconfigured resource in the infrastructure, spinning up a triage situation would enable support roles to better train junior team members.

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Zoppatorsk

A big thing to consider with this, except the ones already mentioned with not getting paid is that I don't think many companies would be willing to just hand out their source code...

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Millicent A. Obwanda

Great Idea!

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theph03*nix215

There are websites/apps that offer environments that allow you to do bug fixes add features. I don't have any off the top of my head but comment if you or anyone else wants the links.

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Patrick Wendo

I'd like to see some

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Bas

Isn't this just stack overflow?