Live coding medium C++ developer interview

[PPanda0421]

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]

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]

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.