I think a lot about how even people I know, nice and good people, still carry on the culture of abusive puzzle/quiz interviews for software engineering. These same people who have never once asked if the candidate understands why mutating global state ...

[elucidating@mastodon.social]

I think a lot about how even people I know, nice and good people, still carry on the culture of abusive puzzle/quiz interviews for software engineering. These same people who have never once asked if the candidate understands why mutating global state is bad for a code base or why commits should be small and single purpose.

[mattly@hachyderm.io]

@Elucidating in my experience this is because the kinds of people who give code puzzle interviews don’t actually believe that mutating global state is bad or that commits should be small or single purpose