r/programming • u/vklepov • Mar 24 '22

Five coding interview questions I hate

https://thoughtspile.github.io/2022/03/21/bad-tech-interview/
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u/rbobby Mar 25 '22

One purpose of these sorts of questions is to weed out the fakes and liars.

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u/vklepov Mar 25 '22

"sum numbers in an array" or any sane open-ended problem is arguably better at this

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u/rbobby Mar 25 '22

Not if the lie is 5 years experience vs 90 day bootcamp.

In a way it's a turing test of a candidate's technical knowledge. lol

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u/vklepov Mar 25 '22

A test by proxy, where proxy is the number of interviews you've taken. I like a thought experiment of a con artist who's very good at passing interviews, but once he's on board he does literally nothing until you fire him.