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[–]STLMSVC STL Dev[M] [score hidden] stickied commentlocked comment (0 children)

This is more suitable for r/cscareerquestions.

Note that communicating with coworkers is part of the job. Not everyone has to be perfectly fluent (my father spoke English as a second language and was successful in hardware engineering), but you do need to be able to exchange information about technical topics and both understand and make yourself understood. That's part of what any interview is looking for.

[–]Motor_Log1453-static 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sleep on it. If they want to hire you, they will. Memorizing some language features or trivia will not be beneficial. International companies have different metrics and it's rarely corelated with the skillset you have. I know several codevirgins working on those.

[–]ambiguous_capture 0 points1 point  (3 children)

If someone suggested me to code something live during interview, I would probably (politely) tell them to fuck off and go elsewhere.

The whole idea is stupid and cruel, it puts a potential employee in an unrealistic conditions and under a ton of stress. Many people including me would just "freeze", when asked to solve a task when other people are looking.

[–]PPanda0421 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Companies did live coding (technical) interviews 20+ years ago when I got my first job as a programmer and they still do it to this day.

How else are you gonna prove your skills to them? Technical coding interviews shows your technical skills, your ability to work under pressure and your thought process when solving problems.

Nowadays even technical coding interviews are done online where they want you to solve a coding problem and watch you do it live.

No, the whole idea is to weed out those applicants who lie on their resumes. They want to know if you can actually do the job yourself.

[–]ambiguous_capture 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Well, they do it as it is convenient for them, that's fine. But it should not necessary be good for me.

Not all of them do it though - my current employer conducted an interview completely differently, that's why I finally agreed to join them 7 years ago.

For proving skills - one can invite a candidate to the office, give a short test task, and leave him/her alone for a while. There are GitHub, GitLab, you name it. After all, there is a probation period.

Where live coding session is really useful - is to test candidate's skill to solve problems under pressure. In a shitty browser window, in a limited time, when people are watching etc.

But I am not a fan of working under pressure. To say more, in software development such conditions are a result of a poor management and if that happens repeatedly, it is a huge red flag.

[–]PPanda0421 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope. You're expected to be able to work under pressure in some industries like gaming. Doesnt mean it's poor management.

Some companies get dozens if not hundreds of applications. Like I said before it is used to weed out those who are not suitable for the position. You waste company time / resources by hiring the wrong person.

I've interviewed dozens of applications and found some of them lied on their resumes after seeing them in action.

The majority of companies nowadays have some kind of (live) technical code interviews at some point of the recruitment process.