CONFESS! Programmers Are Confessing Their Coding Sins!

[Razer]

> A number of programmers have taken it Twitter to bring it to
> everyone's, but particularly recruiter's, attention about the grueling
> interview process in their field that relies heavily on technical
> questions.
>
> David Heinemeier Hansson, a well-known programmer and the creator of
> the popular Ruby on Rails coding framework, started it when he
> tweeted, "Hello, my name is David. I would fail to write bubble sort
> on a whiteboard. I look code up on the internet all the time. I don't
> do riddles." Another coder added, "Hello, my name is Tim. I'm a lead
> at Google with over 30 years coding experience and I need to look up
> how to get length of a python string." Another coder chimed in, "Hello
> my name is Mike, I'm a GDE and lead at NY Times, I don't know what np
> complete means. Should I?"
>
> A feature story on The Outline adds:
>
>> This interview style, widely used by major tech companies including
>> Google and Amazon, typically pits candidates against a whiteboard
>> without access to reference material -- a scenario working
>> programmers say is demoralizing and an unrealistic test of actual
>> ability. People spend weeks preparing for this process, afraid that
>> the interviewer will quiz them on the one obscure algorithm they
>> haven't studied. "
>>
> A cottage industry has emerged that reminds us uncomfortably of SAT
> prep," Karla Monterroso, VP of programs for Code2040, an organization
> for black and Latino techies, wrote in a critique of the whiteboard
> interview. [...] This means companies tend to favor recent computer
> science grads from top-tier schools who have had time to cram; in
> other words, it doesn't help diversify the field with women, older
> people, and people of color.
>

With links:
https://developers.slashdot.org/story/17/03/01/1643251/programmers-are-confessing-their-coding-sins-to-protest-a-broken-job-interview-process