When interviewing a programmer, check that he is: a) good at coding, and b) bearable. Chat about his experience, let him scribble an algorithm to reverse a string, and wish him luck. Right?
Hell no. Tihomir Nakov just released a list of dumbass questions Google asks during its job interviews.
They include:
- How many golf balls can fit in a school bus?
- How many piano tuners are there in the entire world?
- You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and your mass is proportionally reduced so as to maintain your original density. You are then thrown into an empty glass blender. The blades will start moving in 60 seconds. What do you do?
If you have ever been interviewed for an IT job, I bet your ass in that blender that you’ve been exposed to this bullshit.
Let me make one thing clear: I am a decent developer. I can do what I claim I can do. Give me a real software problem at an interview and I will pull infrastructure design, algorithms and a DB schema out of my behind. However, when I’m dressed in an itchy wool suit with nylons creeping up the aforementioned behind and I’m worrying about sweating all over the interviewer during our handshake, the last thing I want to do is solve extra credit word problems from a fourth grade math test. Ok?
Would you ask a doctor how many daisies are at the end of a rainbow? No, you’d see if he can tell genital warts from a common cold. Would you ask a mechanical engineer how many lollipops are in a candy store? No, you’d ask him to design a fucking bridge. What is it about IT interviews that makes them so bullshit-permeable?
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Tell someone there are a billion stars in the universe and the person will probably believe you. Tell someone that the paint is wet and the person will touch it! Also, my doctor is more worried about selling his practice then answering my questions on my very “physical” problem! Enough said? Sorry, just k’vetshing.
IT interviews are retarded because we take ourselves way too serious. All we are is digital construction workers… I mean really all.. wait.. hot chick.. MUST GO CATCALL!!!!