[1474295912]

I wonder if such a scheme would fly in other disciplines of Engineering? Would they hire a person at a Thermal power station, who can dazzle people with fancy Laplace transforms on a white-board?

I recently interviewed for a position at a small Amsterdam based company. They simply asked me to work with them and refactor a part of their code base. It was really interesting and frankly, we all had lots of fun during the 3-4 hour process.

Coming from the USA, it was eye opening to see the ingenuity of this simple way to determine candidates ability. It's such a shame that Stack ranking like HackerRank are being favoured instead of on-job evaluation.

[mahyarm]

Cracking the coding interview trains you for one interview type. Many places do multiple interview types:

1. Coding challenge <- Your interview was mostly this.

- Make an object

- Make a mini-app

- Fix this code

- Refactor this thing

2. Design a program on a whiteboard

3. Algorithmic & Data Structures <- Cracking the coding interview helps here, and is the type many engineers struggle with.

4. Hiring manager interview <- the most subjective

People also will bring up if you're an asshole in any of the above interviews.

[hartator]

This is the Amsterdam startup scene, basically an extension of the US startup scene where you can smoke weed. Try France, Spain or Italy that truly have a different culture for tech things, I am not sure if you will like it.

[1474295912]

Ignoring your snark, I had the similar experience at a Salzburg and Berlin based company. On the other hand there were many companies (Zalando, ProhectA etc) which were copying the shitty model of useless programming puzzles.

[plandis]

It's probably pretty easy to obtain pot in SF. Definitely easy in Seattle if you're over 21.