hey, i like this service, but when do you guys go live?
We are planning to launch next week.
Show HN: We got sick of technical interviews, so we’ve built Pramp
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#12Fnally, something more interactive than "Cracking the Coding Interview"
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#13People don't get that technical skills are not enough to get good at technical interviews. It even sounds funny because these are TECHNICAL interviews. But Interviewing is a skill by itself: how to communicate, how to walk another person through your thoughts when you haven't reached an answer yet or might be lost, how to address non-obvious challenges while explaining your solution strategy and how to do all of that under pressure. All of this goes above and beyond knowing the answer...
Practicing is key. Many of my friends with strong backgrounds failed on most of their interviews, but after learning how to do interviewing they were able to land almost every job they wanted.
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#14Not sure I understand how you can do what you suggest you do. Are you employing professional interviewers to do technical mock interviews? If so, how can you afford to be free?
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#15I remember that when I was in college, career services used to hook us up with some CS alum to do practice. The problem was that we could do only 1 or 2 practice interview max and that never felt enough. Fortunately, I no longer need to go through these stupid tech interview rounds, but I can most certainly understand the need for this type of product.
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#16AMAZING!
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#17Definitelyn something I could use
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#18Very interesting. I would use it!
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#19I remember that when I was in college, career services used to hook us up with some CS alum to do practice. The problem was that we could do only 1 or 2 practice interview max and that never felt enough. Fortunately, I no longer need to go through these stupid tech interview rounds, but I can most certainly understand the need for this type of product.
Exactly. I was able to get one interview thro my career services last semester. The alum was nice and helpful, but basically told me that I have a lot to work on. That was good to know but one interview didn't help with that... Will sure give this a try!
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#20Seems 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.
I hate these interviews. I really do.
However, I have to admit that there is a lot to learn about a candidate from interviewing her, as long as you try to grasp how a person think and avoid sticking to stupid details. Technical interviews are as good as the method and person conducting them.