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by pmiller2 2839 days ago
The fact that interviewing for software engineering jobs tests skills that are mostly unrelated to software engineering. Related: interviews that are SE relevant, but in no way apply to the job at hand.

Example: I was asked by a 50 person company to “design the Twitter home page/feed for the world.” Relevant to SE, sort of... I mean, who designs massive distributed systems themselves without being able to consult colleagues or the internet? Relevant to a 50 person company? I suppose they wish it was....

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Might be worse? Yes, whiteboard coding questions.

Unbiased opinion, but this is a problem I really care and I'm trying to solve with https://type12.com