-- "Why do you keep looking for your car keys under the lamp post?"
-- "Because that's where the light is."
Less snarkily: that's because they traits that really matter in a modern development environment -- the ability to deal with ambiguity and complexity; to navigate the tipping points between technical perfection and optimal business value; and and top of all this, a genuine sense of humility and a willingness to work with others whose strengths and weaknesses are different from your own -- are very hard to test for, if they can be "tested" for at all.
But since the current interview "process" is so obsessed with "testing" and stack-ranking... not surprisingly, it's largely rigged around traits that are... easy to "test" for.
Like you know, the ability to crank out rehearsed solutions to algorithm puzzles and the like.
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-- "Why do you keep looking for your car keys under the lamp post?"
-- "Because that's where the light is."
Less snarkily: that's because they traits that really matter in a modern development environment -- the ability to deal with ambiguity and complexity; to navigate the tipping points between technical perfection and optimal business value; and and top of all this, a genuine sense of humility and a willingness to work with others whose strengths and weaknesses are different from your own -- are very hard to test for, if they can be "tested" for at all.
But since the current interview "process" is so obsessed with "testing" and stack-ranking... not surprisingly, it's largely rigged around traits that are... easy to "test" for.
Like you know, the ability to crank out rehearsed solutions to algorithm puzzles and the like.