@GergelyOrosz: From a lead fullstack engineer in Germany, interviewing: "Interviews have changed, a LOT! In the past, interview questi…
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A lead fullstack engineer in Germany observes that tech interviews have shifted from discussing frameworks like React vs Angular to requiring candidates to use AI to rapidly generate a product from a spec, calling the trend 'pure insanity'.
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From a lead fullstack engineer in Germany, interviewing:
“Interviews have changed, a LOT! In the past, interview questions/discussions would include things like React vs Angular, Java vs Go. Today it’s: can you one shot a waterfall spec to derive a product in two hours that would otherwise take is 10 years … because that’s what we should be doing.
I find it pure insanity that teams actually believe all this. But either you go with it and get a job offer, or you push back and explain the problems with it, and then you don’t.“
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