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Live coding interviews measure stress, not coding skils (hadid.dev)
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[–] silasmariner@programming.dev 3 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Good enough example, although I would've picked dealing with a live incident

[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

That sounds fair. I hate "tests" that involve things you'd never do on the job.

[–] Cratermaker@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Yeah, that too! When you have some non technical manager breathing down your neck, you might have a hard time not fumbling around even if you normally could resolve the issue in no time.