> I don't understand what she's talking about here. Every time I see a job opening, the software hiring manager and the team peers know there's a pain point that needs to be solved. E.g. "We need to an embedded C programmer to make this firmware talk to our USB protocol". "We need a developer to port the Java code to Go." "We need to expose our mainframe transactions as a REST API", etc.
Not necessarily here, but there are also a lot of buzzword soup and horribly vague reqs floating around out there. Just browse Dice or Indeed.
> I'm not sure where her experience with whiteboarding comes from. In my experience, companies use whiteboarding to sketch out algorithmic thinking. Whiteboarding is the opposite of reciting trivia such as the "3rd parameter to an obscure library function" Interviewers don't care about perfect syntax or missing semicolons.
My experience has been that significant numbers of interviewers want working code on the whiteboard, Amazon in particular. If whiteboard interviews were what you describe, I and large numbers of other people would not hate them so much.
It isn't just whiteboard interviews, either. I have had phone screens where my Linux programming skills were judged based on how well I had memorized POSIX manpages. Maybe I have just had bad luck in drawing interviews, but then maybe you have had good luck. I don't know. I can dig up anecdotes from around the web to support both our experiences.
Not necessarily here, but there are also a lot of buzzword soup and horribly vague reqs floating around out there. Just browse Dice or Indeed.
> I'm not sure where her experience with whiteboarding comes from. In my experience, companies use whiteboarding to sketch out algorithmic thinking. Whiteboarding is the opposite of reciting trivia such as the "3rd parameter to an obscure library function" Interviewers don't care about perfect syntax or missing semicolons.
My experience has been that significant numbers of interviewers want working code on the whiteboard, Amazon in particular. If whiteboard interviews were what you describe, I and large numbers of other people would not hate them so much.
It isn't just whiteboard interviews, either. I have had phone screens where my Linux programming skills were judged based on how well I had memorized POSIX manpages. Maybe I have just had bad luck in drawing interviews, but then maybe you have had good luck. I don't know. I can dig up anecdotes from around the web to support both our experiences.