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Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skils (hadid.dev)
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[–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

IMO this is not a helpful way to put it. They measure skill under stress. Stress may have a large effect on skill level for some people but highly unlikely that it's so large that performance is completely random.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Nah, they measure memorization under stress. Can you recall that tidbit of information to solve the problem the interviewer has given you? If you never have needed to solve a problem like that then you’re shit out of luck, even though solving that problem for the first time (by whomever) definitely didn’t do it under stress in a job interview.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Some bad interview questions are like that, sure. But they're supposed to be things you are very unlikely to have done before and can reasonably figure out. It's not too hard to come up with simple questions like that. (Though I will grant many people don't seem to bother.)

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