Seems like a great tool for interview prep, but how professional can an interview of two candidates be? What if I'll learn mistakes from my peer? I think I need a more professional interviewer to practice with
Show HN: We got sick of technical interviews, so we’ve built Pramp
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#32I think it's a good tool for interviewing prep. When I was preparing for interviews in my last job search, I had to find friends who were willing to help me with Skype or in person mock interviews..which wasn't so easy. This would provide a good alternative.
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#33To increase credibility: 1. You should add an "About" page and tell us about your background and what makes you best suited for providing this service 2. Give 2-3 examples of questions+answers (for 2-3 roles) to set expectations / give a taste of the type of practice one would get by signing up for the service
Thanks for the great feedback. Totally makes sense and I plan to add the "About" page very soon.
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#34As a recruiter I can find this platform relevant in so many ways. There is a big added value. Kudos!
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#35I like the name because it captures the essence of this platform - practice makes perfect. It's been a while since I interviewed for software development roles but I sure wish I had a tool like this back then - it would have saved me from a lot of stress during interviews and made my job search so much easier. Kudos!
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#36Seems 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.
The point of the interviews is seeing the value of a SW developer as a thinker and try to see their thinking process. Up to that point, I agree. However, not-so-complicated questions can be enough, and if interviewers try to make interviews more sophisticated, the interview degrades, in my opinion. Interviewers can ask an engineer for a way to find loops in a list, hoping that they find Floyd's "Tortoise and Hare" algorithm. Well, you either know the algorithm or you don't, but for sure you don't come up with it in 20 minutes (I believe Floyd himself didn't either). So are we measuring how the engineer thinks or how much they have prepared for the interview?
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#37It's a mistake to try to promote your work on HN by soliciting upvotes and comments or by making fake accounts. Three things happen: HN software will penalize your post, HN moderators will penalize your post, and/or HN users will do it by flagging and by complaining in the thread. #1 and #3 happened in this case.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hey, good catch, thanks! I had actually been interested by the idea for the other side (having my team practice interviews before talking to real candidates). But I saw your comment, looked at all those one-line spam comments and now don't want to give it a try. bletch.
Hey there, I assure you that there is nothing fishy about Pramp.com. I'm one the guys who built it and the reason I did that is because as an engineer myself, I experienced first hand the pains in getting a good practice before important job interviews. Some of the folks you see here with fresh accounts are my friends who simply wanted to upvote my post.
They wanted to upvote their friend's post and ask their friend questions on the HN thread, sometimes several times from different accounts?