Doing coding interview training here. Shadowing, I saw a candidate smash the coding while being completely silent and not explaining anything. Was told that was great performance (he surely already saw them). Was dinged in a reverse shadow for giving hints to a stuck but good communicating and logical candidate. Being a good interviewer apparently means sitting silently and giving a thumbs up if they pass the dumb little question. Also, I hate the emphasis on dinging candidates for little bugs and off by 1 errors. Getting the algorithm is by far the biggest hurdle; off by 1 errors during a speed coding exercise will not translate to someone’s 8 hour workday. I was told a candidate who smoked the 2 questions would’ve been rejected because of small bugs.
I agree that it's stupid to ding someone on little bugs after they get the algo correct, but shouldn't the interviewee proactively walk through their own code to find the bugs before they ask you for feedback? That's how I did the interviews. Like having bugs in your initial answer shouldn't be a ding, but not walking through your code/not finding the bugs after you write the initial answer is a ding (I do not conduct interviews, that's just how I thought about it)
Depends, FB has 2 rounds per interview. So if you get it in 5 min, you definitely have time to look it over. But if it took you some time, taking longer to walk through all edge case inputs could either put you at risk of not having time for #2 or else you might be out of time already.
Right, in the case where the interviewee is running out of time then it becomes a gray area
Agreed. When I interview senior candidates I look primarily for the overall thinking and nudge them in right direction for NPE stuff if there is time
Yes unfortunately FB is specifically notorious for doing this. My interview with Google was more like how you said an interview should be
^ when I was an interviewer at G, I noticed myself and other interviewers on the packet would score a lot more leniently in situations like this. Usually. Obviously things like failing to check bounds, etc would be dinged. But a minor mistake on an otherwise good algo? Hire.
Yeah totally, that’s how interviews should be
Reading this has let me know that I failed my onsite yesterday
I recently gave an interview with booking.com. 2 interviewers super chilled guy and the first thing they told me is that they are not going to run the code. They had the whole hackerrank test cases setup already to run it but they told they just want to see my approach and coding and dry run it. That's how interviews should be I feel. If as an interviewer you can't find the issue in code you have no right to judge for the silly corner cases.
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Completely agreed. But the sad part is that nothing much can be done. That being said. Can you refer me to fb?
Depends, can you refer me to goog?
Sure, why not