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Show HN: We got sick of technical interviews, so we’ve built Pramp

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Re: Show HN: We got sick of technical interviews, so we’ve built Pramp

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Post by somaglor »

Interviewing is a skill. There's a lot to performing well in an interview above and beyond knowing the answer to a question. Practicing is key. I have a lot of good friends that their first time interviewing they didn't manage to get any internships (even though they had a strong background), but after they got interviewing experience they landed almost every job they wanted. (Google, Facebook, Microsoft etc.)

Re: Show HN: We got sick of technical interviews, so we’ve built Pramp

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Post by gorenelai »

Seems the reports of the death of the technical interview have been greatly exaggerated. I remember reading a post on TechCrunch that announced the death of coding interviews as a way to assess candidates. The premise of the article was that since the whole purpose of an interview was to serve as a proxy for actual performance, due to the lack of the tools and infrastructure to easily observe and measure the latter, but now that we do, “it is the height of cargo-cult stupidity not to use them”.

Re: Show HN: We got sick of technical interviews, so we’ve built Pramp

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Post by yarissan1 »

gorenelai wrote: post #3

Seems the reports of the death of the technical interview have been greatly exaggerated. I remember reading a post on TechCrunch that announced the death of coding interviews as a way to assess candidates. The premise of the article was that since the whole purpose of an interview was to serve as a proxy for actual performance, due to the lack of the tools and infrastructure to easily observe and measure the latter,…

Forget it. Technical interviews should have stopped years ago. Getting a candidate to solve interview problems on a whiteboard gives you nothing about his/her abilities as an engineer. Time to flush all of that garbage away.

Re: Show HN: We got sick of technical interviews, so we’ve built Pramp

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Post by jacklochen »

This is just another service that reinforces a bad hiring practice. Silicon Valley has a reputation for favoring younger engineers. And unfortunately, in many cases, technical interviews are used today to screen out engineers older than 40 . It’s incomprehensible to me that an area that is known to be open-minded and super liberal, an age-based discrimination is taking place on a massive scale.

Re: Show HN: We got sick of technical interviews, so we’ve built Pramp

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Post by mov2tlv »

I'm in my junior year of college for my CS degree and any software engineering internship I try to get rejects me because I don't know the answers to the technical questions. I've tried studying for these as best I can but it doesn't ever seem to help. I'm at a loss as to what I should do. If I can't even get an internship then I have no idea how I'm going to get a job. Any suggestions?

Re: Show HN: We got sick of technical interviews, so we’ve built Pramp

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Post by nataliebsh »

Interviewing is a skill. There's a lot to performing well in an interview above and beyond knowing the answer to a question. Practicing is key. I have a lot of good friends that their first time interviewing they didn't manage to get any internships (even though they had a strong background), but after they got interviewing experience they landed almost every job they wanted. (Google, Facebook, Microsoft and so forth)
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