Lorin Hochstein 
The three skills with a lot less overlap than you’d expect:
1. Ability to code.
2. Ability to perform well in a coding interview.
3. Ability to validate code.
rk: it’s hyphen-minus actuallyI hate live-coding interviews. If someone is watching me, I forget how to even type. Obviously my 30+ years of writing code, all my open source stuff, my extensive resume, all those papers and conference presentations were just me faking it.
Chris Petrilli@rk @norootcause ever since Google made me write code (not pseudo code, not math) on a fucking white board during an staff engineer interview, I have seen them as an indication of pompous douchebags hazing people.
Nobody writes code like that.
I honestly thought people were exaggerating how stupid they were.
MissConstrue@petrillic @rk @norootcause I walked on a similar interview. I really did look at them like the rca dog, and then said, I’m sorry boys, I didn’t realize this was a hazing interview. Thank you for the coffee, I can see myself out.”
Fuck all of that. I’d rather sling drinks in a gentleman’s club than be asked to perform on command. I’m not a show pony, I’m an experienced professional with a resume that existed before those tech bros were born, and I will be goddamned if I’m gonna be bullied by people that don’t wear long pants.