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Discussion on: What's Wrong with the Tech Interview Process?

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Michael Frohberg • Edited

I am glad to see that I am not the only one who abhors the way tech interviews are conducted. If this were somehow producing better engineers I could understand, but the data does not suggest that it does.

viglobal.com/2018/06/13/tech-indus...

This is more than just a matter of preference to me.
Having been born with learning and attention differences I struggled daily against a system that seemed to place the highest value on memorization. Memory is not an indication of intelligence. I’d rather have 64GB of RAM and a 2.5GHZ quad core processor than a 16/32bit processor and 2TB of storage.

To me this is an issue of accessibility and a lack of inclusiveness.

PS. Been an engineer almost 10 years. I have not as of yet, needed to implement a bubble sort