interviews
Will Faught
July 2023
Data-Driven Software Interviews
Software interviews suck, but they don’t have to.
Thomas Ptacek: The software developer job interview doesn’t work. Companies should stop relying on them. The savviest teams will outcompete their peers by devising alternative hiring schemes. Years from now, we’ll look back at the 2015 developer interview as an anachronism, akin to hiring an orchestra cellist with a personality test and a quiz about music theory rather than a blind audition. Being good at navigating hiring processes requires a basket of skills that isn’t correlated with job performance.
hiring interviews software technology
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January 2013
EPSBD is a mnemonic I use to remember five helpful approaches to solving algorithmic problems that I got from Cracking the Coding Interview by Gayle McDowell: Examplify: Derive rules from examples. To compute the angle between the hour and minute hands in a clock, first derive the rules for computing the angle of each hand separately, then derive the rule for computing the angle between the hands in terms of them.
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