interviewing

Interviewing

Technical interview formats I've had, ranked in order of preference.

1. I get to use my own computer, editor, environment, etc to do a task. Ultimate comfort and familiarity.

2. Coderpad: a web IDE that I can be in control of.

3. Taking control of somebody else's screen and using their text editor. I don't just not know their editor shortcuts, I feel crippled without my own.

4. Whiteboarding

5. "Coding" in Google Docs

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A new study from North Carolina State University and Microsoft finds that the technical interviews currently used in hiring for many software engineering positions test whether a job candidate has performance anxiety rather than whether the candidate is competent at coding.

- https://news.ncsu.edu/2020/07/tech-job-interviews-anxiety/