I've been a dev for 10 years and worked in Sydney, London, New York & San Francisco. What I noticed is that San Francisco has a very different "technical" interview approach that is very CS focused. I studied a CS degree (7 years ago) and think it's stupid that I have to dig into knowledge that I have not needed professionally over my whole career.
I've built successful startups, coded mamoth apps used by millions of people, but failed interviews at companies like Yammer.
I wrote a post about how I conduct technical interviews for my company airpair.
Also, side plug we've been getting lots of business both around preparing for interviews and helping to interview candidates when you don't have in-house knowledge to vet skills you don't have.
I've been a dev for 10 years and worked in Sydney, London, New York & San Francisco. What I noticed is that San Francisco has a very different "technical" interview approach that is very CS focused. I studied a CS degree (7 years ago) and think it's stupid that I have to dig into knowledge that I have not needed professionally over my whole career.
I've built successful startups, coded mamoth apps used by millions of people, but failed interviews at companies like Yammer.
I wrote a post about how I conduct technical interviews for my company airpair.
http://hackerpreneurialism.com/post/43661666180/how-i-conduc...
Pair Programming is KEY.
Also, side plug we've been getting lots of business both around preparing for interviews and helping to interview candidates when you don't have in-house knowledge to vet skills you don't have.
Here are some examples:
http://airpa.ir/1d5sqR6 (Need help reviewing candidates code)
http://airpa.ir/1dteU8H (Need help interviewing an iOS candiate)
http://airpa.ir/173ily2 (Needed help preparing for JavaScript interview)