| Couldn't read the article due to pay/registration wall. If this is about screening potential software engineers with programming questions during an interview, hasn't this always been a thing even before Google popularised it? I started my career after the dot-com era but it was in Systems Administration, so I didn't get to experience any programming style interviews until I changed careers and attempted an interview in 2008 with Google. But hasn't this been the standard modus operandi for big tech companies like Microsoft, Sun, Oracle, IBM, etc. even in the 90s? I recall reading this [1] article from Casey Muratori about programming questions for a Software Engineering intern at Microsoft. I'm not against this style of interviewing, but I do also think that some questions can be absurd or unnecessarily tricky. I've had my fair share of programming interview questions, and I found my solve rate to be around 3/7 for my last interview with Google back in 2015. Some of the questions posed were really tricky, and I just don't have the ability to solve in a timely manner without properly experimenting with the problem. From my impression and perspective, interviewers would sometimes choose questions with high coolness/leetness factor instead of choosing something more practical for a 30-50 minute session. [1]: https://www.computerenhance.com/p/the-four-programming-quest... |