Well. I allow use google or stackoverflow on my interviews. It's ok to not know everything, but you have to be able to find solution (and understand what you've found).
Thanks for sharing Alex, I once had a front-end interview where the interviewer was okay with me searching up whatever and even said its okay to use a personal project's source code. It felt so wrong to me because I wasn't used to it. But it shouldn't have felt wrong because this is what every day development is all about. I'm happy to hear more interviews are allowing to use resources :)
Great take, Hunter! Agree with everything said, I hope to see more companies give take home coding projects as part of the interview process, as well as compensating the interviewee for their time spent on the project. But that's a different topic :)
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Totally agree with the compensation. Example: I tackled a coding project for a company (4+ hours), including some stuff nobody knew there. They learned something from me for free, especially since they rejected my application. It has a bitter taste.
It's not about free labor. It's about commitment. Without fee, company lose nothing, but an applicant lose a lot of time without any guarantee of a feedback
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There is a lot of consensus going around that prefers coding homework to coding interviews.
Who programs in front of a boss at the job? Not many...and not often.
Coding interviews reward rote memorization, and are a poor indicator of ability.
We are working IN software....to pretend like stackoverflow and google are not your second brain is delusional.
Anyway, Farhana thank you for sharing your story and you will soon get what you want if not already! Happy New Year!
Well. I allow use google or stackoverflow on my interviews. It's ok to not know everything, but you have to be able to find solution (and understand what you've found).
Thanks for sharing Alex, I once had a front-end interview where the interviewer was okay with me searching up whatever and even said its okay to use a personal project's source code. It felt so wrong to me because I wasn't used to it. But it shouldn't have felt wrong because this is what every day development is all about. I'm happy to hear more interviews are allowing to use resources :)
Great take, Hunter! Agree with everything said, I hope to see more companies give take home coding projects as part of the interview process, as well as compensating the interviewee for their time spent on the project. But that's a different topic :)
Happy new year!
Totally agree with the compensation. Example: I tackled a coding project for a company (4+ hours), including some stuff nobody knew there. They learned something from me for free, especially since they rejected my application. It has a bitter taste.
Disagree with compensation. If a company took advantage of applicants as a free labor pool....it would get a terrible reputation. ;-)
It's not about free labor. It's about commitment. Without fee, company lose nothing, but an applicant lose a lot of time without any guarantee of a feedback