Discussion on "Dear HR, Software Development Interviews are Broken"

Avneesh Sharma · 2020-08-11T20:19:13.464Z

Dear HR, Your software development interviews are broken. I have been on both sides of the table 100s of times and anecdotally I never saw any correlation between a good interview performance with the job performance. The data structure and algorith...

Brilliant article! Having been in the software industry for 16+ years... I cannot agree more 🙌😎

Glad you resonated with the article. It pains me every time knowing a skilled engineer being rejected because of DS & Algo questions.

I can understand if I am being asked about data structures for a SWE role in Amazon or Google. But for some other companies, it's just an overkill. Thanks for the article.

I can tell you from experience that it is an overkill for companies like Amazon too. You rarely use data structure and algorithms on day to day basis!

This is very insightful, thanks for sharing!

Congrats on your first blog post. Very informative. Quick tip: Tag this post with “General Programming” for more visibility. :)

Thanks for the tip! :)

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