IT's pure PR spin. Glassdoor reviews from the past couple of months, both positive and negative indicate to me that the process is very broken and disrespectful.
For instance, multiple people mentioned not being able to get the answer to the problem coded and running with unit tests in 30 minutes.
IF you're testing programmers on the speed at which they code then you don't know what you're doing.
The more productive programmers are slower out of the gate. (EG: think about something for awhile then write it out and produce something that works better and requires less debugging and bashing into shape over the next 2 weeks.)
Even if you disagree with this hypothesis, testing for speed is measuring just one parameter. Apparently they only care if the program runs in the aloted time, not the thought process the engineer goes thru in writing it.
Completely agree. Yet, the number of companies using hacker rank and other timed tests is going up! I honestly prefer a whiteboard interview, where I can actually explain my thought process with the interviewer. Its far better than bash out the first solution that comes into my head, as I don't have time to think it through properly.
For instance, multiple people mentioned not being able to get the answer to the problem coded and running with unit tests in 30 minutes.
IF you're testing programmers on the speed at which they code then you don't know what you're doing.
The more productive programmers are slower out of the gate. (EG: think about something for awhile then write it out and produce something that works better and requires less debugging and bashing into shape over the next 2 weeks.)
Even if you disagree with this hypothesis, testing for speed is measuring just one parameter. Apparently they only care if the program runs in the aloted time, not the thought process the engineer goes thru in writing it.