> The way I see it is, the most condescending interview for a programmer is the one that contains no coding at all.
Why is that?
The last two interviews I had involved no coding. Both led to an offer.
In one of them, I demoed a personal project and showed bits of its code. I think it would've been quite condescending of them to have me do a fizzbuzz after I've shown them 10k lines of working code.
The other company didn't even care to see my code even though I brought my laptop.. they just took it for granted that I can code.
> In one of them, I demoed a personal project and showed bits of its code. I think it would've been quite condescending of them to have me do a fizzbuzz after I've shown them 10k lines of working code and its credibly your own code. Most candidates I see have some repos on their GitHub which are implementations of coursera coursework.
I guess its a reasonable substitute, IFF the candidate has such a project to show.
> The other company didn't even care to see my code even though I brought my laptop.. they just took it for granted that I can code.
With such a company I would have doubts that I might start in a team with people who cannot code or code fairly badly. I expect, in an interview as an applicant, to see that the position that I start in has a certain appreciation of engineering work. If the prospective employer can convince me that they are caring about their staff's skill levels and code quality, etc without a code-interview, I guess its ok. But most companies that have no coding part in their interview process just don't assess the skill-level.
> > The other company didn't even care to see my code even though I brought my laptop.. they just took it for granted that I can code.
> With such a company I would have doubts that I might start in a team with people who cannot code or code fairly badly.
FWIW that was a military contractor hiring for a fighter jet project. Expensive machinery and lives at stake. They must have a bar for quality, and they can't leave it to the skill of an individual contributor.
Why is that?
The last two interviews I had involved no coding. Both led to an offer.
In one of them, I demoed a personal project and showed bits of its code. I think it would've been quite condescending of them to have me do a fizzbuzz after I've shown them 10k lines of working code.
The other company didn't even care to see my code even though I brought my laptop.. they just took it for granted that I can code.