alt Hacker NewsYou still had to do a coding test -- but it was pointing to the bug in the C++ linked-list implementation on a single sheet of line printer paper.
Because nobody was going to carry a Sun workstation down to the meeting room just for your interview.
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eloisant • today at 9:13 AM
Or coding on a white board. God I hated it.
QuercusMax • yesterday at 11:21 PM
I took a paper coding test in 2004 when I was job hunting. It was pretty hilarious to me, really, since it was so incredibly easy (multiple choice data-structures type questions) for anybody who had any skills at all.
They finally offered me a job 3 months later after I already had started working somewhere else.
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I remember a Java job interview like that. "Tell us what you would do to improve this code" with a couple pages of code printed out :-D