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by Mutinix
3241 days ago
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> Good CS fundamentals are important Yes they are. Except, these interviews aren't testing for that. Finding the maximum sum subarray isn't testing for any fundamental. > Just because someone wrote an impressive framework or library doesn't mean given a complex problem outside of their known domain Why are you even hiring them for something that's not their expertise? Seriously, that's literally the whole point of the interview. I don't think Max Howell was trying to get in to the DeepMind team. Calling these just some other web framework or package management tools is doing them an incredible disservice. Twitter used Rails. Airbnb uses Rails. If Airbnb hired DHH, it would be Airbnb's fault if they made him tune hyperparameters of some ML model rather than see how their web performance could be improved. Honestly, at this point I'm convinced I could get HN to talk poorly about John Carmack's programming skills. |
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There is quite literally nothing more fundamental to computer science than data organization and access.
And for what it's worth, Google and others are very open about their hiring process: they want generalists. I assume they have the data to justify that's a better investment. So maybe DHH or whoever gave the impression they weren't interested in doing anything they haven't already mastered. We have at least a little bit of evidence that attitude could be the problem: many of these anecdotes are disgruntled people who (often profanely) publicly vent when a company rejects them. Maybe that attitude comes out during the interview when they're asked to do something they deem to be beneath them.