Timeline for Why interviewers ask algorithm questions even if job position doesn't require such knowledge?
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| Jan 23, 2018 at 20:18 | comment | added | Daniel | @JamesAdam, to be clear they did not actually say that to me. The point is that a lot of companies are looking for that easy way around having to actually go through a 100 applicants. So they have found that they will grab Codility or Hackerrank and just give everyone a boilerplate algorithm tests that they themselves have no clue about and look for the candidate who gets 100%. But I agree I and others are better off not working for such a company. | |
| Jan 23, 2018 at 17:50 | comment | added | James Adam | @Daniel I'm sorry you had that experience. It sounds like you're better off not working for that company, if that's how they treat people! | |
| Jan 19, 2018 at 4:17 | comment | added | Daniel | @James, the algorithm tests one company had me take thus far, was just a here go take this test on Codility and go away forever. No one ever got back in touch with me to ask me why I wrote the algorithms the way I did. They just saw that not all my solutions were 100% correct, so they said, well we want the guy that gets 100% on it and that's that. | |
| Jun 15, 2014 at 12:31 | comment | added | Pepone | Quite often it is a way of recruiting people just like me and also some times a way of using ones credentials as a form of dominance behaviour. | |
| Jun 14, 2014 at 16:01 | history | answered | James Adam | CC BY-SA 3.0 |