ajt9000 t1_ist5cll wrote on October 18, 2022 at 2:52 PM

Yeah I generally hate coding exercises in interviews. Especially timed ones. Its really weird to me when a company wants to scrutinize your solution to some BS problem that you're given 45 minutes to solve but doesn't give a fuck about your portfolio of past projects.

fromnighttilldawn t1_isvw0vc wrote on October 19, 2022 at 2:03 AM

That's just capitalism bro.

you always need to prove your capacity to work; doesn't matter if you've been doing this for dozens of years
you are always one life event away from losing all of it
your every living moment is squeezed into turning a profit for random strangers
you put on a fake smile, go to work, and pretend with everybody else that the system is normal or even "not so bad" or "could be worse"

chrysanthemum6359 t1_iswpd7s wrote on October 19, 2022 at 6:52 AM

What on Earth do bad hiring practices have to do with capitalism? Aside from providing an economic climate where people can actually get jobs...

visarga t1_isyfm7d wrote on October 19, 2022 at 4:47 PM

I don't think most candidates have a repo to show, maybe just an empty one.

ajt9000 t1_isyibso wrote on October 19, 2022 at 5:05 PM

I don't publish most of my projects publicly either, but I have a long list of historical projects that I can talk about, and many of them I can produce code for upon request. I think that is quite a bit better for demonstrating ability than any crap that I write in under an hour. Especially when the code exams have stipulations like "you cannot use any code or algorithms that you searched for on the internet".