Do you think traditional coding interviews accurately reflect an engineer’s real-world skills?

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Devansh Bajaj · Accepted Answer

I believe engineering skills are evaluated more effectively during interviews that incorporate real-world scenarios, such as realistic coding environments, practical development problems, and the freedom for candidates to explore solutions without restrictive constraints. Traditional coding interviews do lack these things.

Spherical Kat · Answer

This is one thing that I have problems with since the beginning of my career! I've always felt that the interview process was not optimised for what I'd actually use on the job, and always wanted a solution that's fairer

KrishnaGopal Sinha · Answer

I believe traditional coding interviews don't fully reflect an engineer's real world skills. While they assess problem-solving and coding abilities, they often ignore aspects like collaboration, debugging, and working with frameworks or existing code. Real-world work involves more than algorithmic challenges, including communication, code quality, and practical problem solving within teams and constraints. Take home assignments and behavioral rounds do help in this regard though.

Do you think traditional coding interviews accurately reflect an engineer’s real-world skills?

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