| > Hiring Manager Perspective: Everyone lies, sorry. Yeah, and honestly, that includes hiring managers. I've rejected offers because the hiring managers level of deception exceeded my tolerance for bullshit. > About candidates who claim to know a skill but literally cannot write even basic syntax on the whiteboard. Yes, I don't remember the syntax from 5+ languages well enough to write it in on a whiteboard. Yet somehow, I'm able to use 3-4 on a daily basis to handle millions of dollars in transactions. So...I really think whiteboards, once again, are really the wrong way to test people. Code samples and discussing them work much, much better for everyone. I may be biased...whiteboards, I get rejected 50% of the time. I also find, honestly, that if I ask two technical questions of the people giving the whiteboard test of similar difficulty...they rarely can answer more than 1 acceptably so I've found the failure rate to be pretty consistent with the rate they fail me. Code samples? I get offers 90% of the time. |
Not just the example you gave -- they also lie whenever they list something as "required" and then hire the go-getter who's missing some of the skills.