I recently did an interview for a “technical testing” position and it was one where they had you do a whole lot of exercises for coding. In fact, as far as I could tell, that’s pretty much what all the interviews were going to be. The interview was thus, to me, largely a waste of time. I actually told the interviewers that and, to be fair to them, they were quite gracious, did engage me in discussion, and actually seemed to agree with me on a few points. But here I want to talk about why I felt the interview was a waste of time and what role “coding exercises” have when hiring so-called “technical testers.”

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