Not necessarily hiring to complete tickets as fast as possible, but some who can take a task and complete with minimal issues. I don't want to be stuck in meetings or arguing in PRs etc.
I don't know about you, but I would not want to hire someone who can take any task and complete with minimal issues. Where I work, one is encouraged to argue about what is not right in the meetings and offer better solutions.
This candidate is doing exactly that: Argue why a certain hiring methodology is not effective and what a better alternative is. Considering that this candidate does not just follow orders but challenges the status quo and the fact that he has volunteering-based projects to show makes this author very likely a good fit for my organization.
Let me give an example as I am not the best at articulating. hopefully this helps.
Lets say I hired this engineer as Senior or Team Lead. Now I want the base docker image we use for node bumped a major version. I checked the changelog for the nodes releases and knowing our codebase I think its safe.
I could ask a Junior dev to do it, but I knowing that they are lacking experience this may seem like a "big deal" when really its not.
What I want is the node version updated, validation unit tests pass, regressions tests are good. And it to be released. If there is a failure along the way, address it or sure lets chat about it.
But this Email in response to hackerrank - would make me perceive this to be someone who would respond with a complete change to our CI/CD processes, to our infrastructure, maybe to even using Node - as this sort of task is beneath him.
Sure there would be areas this person might excel at, but some days little tasks just need to get done to keep the ball moving.
Looks like it is a difference in culture that I am used to and the one that you are used to.
At my workplace, it is perfectly acceptable for someone to suggest a complete change to our CI/CD process. In fact, we have changed our complete CI/CD process twice (SVN/build scripts -> Mercurial/Jenkins -> Git/Travis-CI) already with minimal loss in productivity because someone questioned the existing CI/CD process and suggested a well thought plan to switch to a new one.
But I get your point that sometimes it may not be feasible to carry our such a drastic change in process, infrastructure, etc. But suggesting such a change is going to be acceptable and we refusing to accept such a suggestion is also going to be perfectly acceptable and both this person and us working in harmony even after this disagreement is also going to be acceptable.
This makes me think that you're a poor judge of character and of a slightly authoritarian mindset.
This email is one of many protesting an industry interview culture that prioritizes badly thought through exercises that bear little relationship to the job being interviewed for.
>What I want is the node version updated
And do you really think that seeing candidates reverse a binary tree without protest will tell you how well they can perform at this kind of role?
> I don't know about you, but I would not want to hire someone who can take any task and complete with minimal issues.
Sorry, I don't want to work with a bunch of pedants. You can have them.
No more extreme than suggesting that someone who raises thoughtful questions on a broken hiring process must certainly be a bad fit for an organization.
> Sorry, I don't want to work with a bunch of pedants.
Now, this is taking it to an extreme!
Maybe at a consultancy and only if you're far downstream of dealing with clients.
That's not normal, nor should it be.
