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Do employers actually know or care about lying on resume? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by ZILtoid1991@kbin.social to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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The current system of job seeking often requires to lie on resume. It is even being highly recommended by people that coach people for job seeking, although with some moderation of course.

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yeah that's a better way to put it to me. I honestly don't care what language most people code in, but I hope you can explain how you're doing stuff. I interview with the expectation of "a lot of red squigglies" expecting it not to compile. I don't care if you call .Sort instead of writing your own. Just show me you can code.

Sadly though, my latest question is for web developers and is mostly made up of calling a simple GET api. I have failed at least 80% of the engineers that take that test simply because they have no idea how to call an API in any language or framework, something I do I'd say on a daily basis. It's basically "call a fake endpoint /foo and show the results" and that takes mid level engineers the entire hour to do.

[–] grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We just overhauled a programming test we use of we aren't certain a person can do what they say they can do (which is most of the time when you hire remote) and yeah the old one disqualified tons of people. It was very simple. I have had lots of people have someone else do it and then act very surprised when I wanted to discuss it with them.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exact same problems, especially remote. I honestly don't know what is happening with engineers coming out of school/bootcamps, they just legit cannot code but go for these coding jobs. who is hiring them? I remember making fun of "fizzbuzz" as an interview question because it's too easy but I legit have had people fail fizzbuzz! In languages they chose!

I hate technical interviews, I've been given questions like "implement binary search", like okay, I can do that, but this is an annoying question. So I try to keep mine very light, "let's just chat about code, show me you can do basic stuff", and I'm just constantly disappointed.

[–] grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

It's rough out there and when you finally find them you they use your offer to get more money from their current job or another offer. Sigh. :)

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

People are taking an hour for

import requests
res = requests.get("https://your-domain.com/foo")
print(res.json())

or javascript's fetch that I don't want to type on my phone any more code for? Maybe I should think higher of my skills.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 points 1 year ago

There's a bit more to it, my question I mean, but I shit you not more interviewees I've had have failed what you just wrote than succeeded.