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Why You Should Never Consent to a Coding Test in an Interview
Software engineering interviews often involve some kind of coding test or programming exercise. But it is not really useful.
- Writing an algorithm to generate factorials or to sort a linked list can be easily memorised beforehand. It offers no insight into a candidate's skill.
- The same reasoning goes for coding an algorithm in a specific programming language. Software engineers don't write sections of code without some kind of syntax checking aid, nor without referring to technical documentation.
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Many companies still fall back to outdated and utterly predictable hiring practices. Being interviewed by someone with a list of precise technical questions is pretty much always red flag.
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A good software engineer often doesn't know the answer to a specific question but knows where to find the answer. There is only so much knowledge anyone can hold in their head ready to recall.
If a task has been automated in a pre-written library, there's no need in reinventing the wheel. P...
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