Every interview process is different and often it is difficult to imagine what one can expect, especially if you are a beginner or generally don't ...
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Does "culture-fit" interview count? Cause that's honestly where I love to figure out that I'm being seen as more than just a guy can code and get to know my future co-workers/team.
I have a friend who is a technical recruiter and he's told me so many stories regarding how companies would pick a less qualified individual based on culture-fit.
This is interesting! How does a "culture-fit" interview usually go? What kind of questions and topic would one expect?
Hmm... I can only speak for myself and from my experiences. Most of the companies that I apply to are small companies with a team of 10-20 people, and some of these companies would have a planned half-day "interview". In a sense, you can call it a very informal technical discussion. You'd spend the day with different people talking about whatever you feel like, this can range between "What have you been up to?" to "Oh, what do you think about -Insert Latest Technology-?" to "What's your favorite food?". It's meant to be a more relaxed environment and while others may frown upon it since these kinds of interview is irrelevant in gauging a person's ability whatsoever, I enjoy it because I actually want to build meaningful connections with my future coworkers if I'm going to spend majority of my time with them.
Sometimes work isn't fun, but at least I want to be around pleasant people that I enjoy working with.
Let me instead go over my interviewing. What I've decided is best is to find a way to get the candidate to talk, something that interests them. It doesn't really matter what as long as it is work related.
What I find is this is also hard. People don't go into an interview prepared to talk about their opinions and interests. If they did, they wouldn't be prepared for most interviews. I think this matches closely with your own code example, we don't need to see your history of learning, tell us about what you're proud of.
I don't like coding changes, I try not to use them, but I can understand how technical talks can be intimidating out of school.
I do use the code review portion, may include bug if hiring for a position where that seems appropriate but I've only been interviewing for SDET positions and does not seem useful yet.
After my first year of schooling for software development, I had an interview for an internship for the Department of Defense in Canada.
They asked me to sketch on a whiteboard a sorting algorithm.
Needless to say, I had no idea what to do! 😂
Usually interviewers have already made up their mind before you even walk in the door. It's mainly a formality and confirmation of their decision of candidates.
Wouldn't say so, we can conclude a person's coding abilities by looking at their code at Github or task they've received (this can be tricky tho) but you can't decide about hiring/not hiring upfront until you really met that person and see what's he/she like.
There is a bunch of other things that need to click in, besides obvious requirement of knowing how to program and how to think, stuff like a cultural fit, teamwork abilities and (the important one) is he/she Star Wars or Star Trek fan :)
I don't think, that you can conclude a person's coding abilities by looking at their code at Github, because it is easy to copy other peoples' code.
My best coding interview was live coding.
I had to build a React todo list from scratch, including setting up create-react-app, looking at my TDD workflow, git workflow, how I solve upcoming problems etc.
Yeah I agree, we can conclude that to some level, we do some testing on site too. Also, if the candidate has done some sort of interview task, we're going to go through code together and talk about it. Those who just copy-pasted code from the net, without understanding it, are easy to spot.
Live coding is good in a reasonable amount, but if someone is expecting from me to code an app from scratch while whole interview team is lookin' at me, I'll just bail out, it's just too weird.
I think it's very insightful.
How does the person react to this stressful situation?
How does he help himself when errors come up?
Does he actually do real TDD?
Does he really think about the architecture or does he start writing some useless stuff?
Can he talk about what he is doing?
How does he react to another person saying something?
Does he write clean code?
Then why would they waste time and money on the interviews that are followed by rejection.