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Ask HN: Has there been any academic research into software interviewing?
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Re: Ask HN: Has there been any academic research into software interviewing?
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Can't agree with this enough. The most consistent finding in industrial psychology is that general cognitive ability is by far the best predictor of job performance in virtually every role ever tested. Even jobs that don't seem cognitively demanding, like janitors or infantry. Higher IQ candidates almost universally do better, even if they start with much less experience. The takeaway as it applies to modern software…
I can't agree with this. High IQ can't be everything. Wouldn't this value experience and knowledge (like everything you learned in university) at zero? Imo there are a lot of great/amazing and productive Software Engineers that wouldn't do well in a whiteboard algorithm interview. The people that tend to do well, are the ones that have a lot of practice with the kind of problems.
> Wouldn't this value experience and knowledge (like everything you learned in university) at zero?
I haven't read the research myself but if they are only looking at interviews, this could be explained by the fact people with absolutely no prior knowledge would be filtered before reaching the interview.
Re: Ask HN: Has there been any academic research into software interviewing?
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I had the opportunity to be in a small interviewing workshop with Aline, she really knows what shes doing and I believe the tech interviewing world would be a better place if more companies adjusted their process based on Alines/Interviewing.ios insights.
I don’t really see what’s special about their process other than the resume-blindness aspect. That’s been validated elsewhere by Triplebyte. Other than that one aspect, the process is exactly like your standard technical phone screen, except that you have to do a really easy Hackerrank problem to get invited to the platform. If I am wrong here, someone please correct me.
Hey, Aline here. Unlike Triplebyte, we offer people free, anonymous mock interviews with engineers from companies like Google, Facebook, etc. Basically, you get on the platform, practice, and then if you do well in practice (again real interviews not coding challenges), you can book real interviews top companies. Those interviews are also anonymous, which means that if you do poorly, you don't have to unmask.
Re: Ask HN: Has there been any academic research into software interviewing?
#74Interviewing.io is a startup that does some research into candidate evaluation. To their credit, they have even posted research with negative results. http://blog.interviewing.io/posts/
I had the opportunity to be in a small interviewing workshop with Aline, she really knows what shes doing and I believe the tech interviewing world would be a better place if more companies adjusted their process based on Alines/Interviewing.ios insights.
Thank you for saying that! It was great to meet with you and the rest of the team =)
Re: Ask HN: Has there been any academic research into software interviewing?
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I can't agree with this. High IQ can't be everything. Wouldn't this value experience and knowledge (like everything you learned in university) at zero? Imo there are a lot of great/amazing and productive Software Engineers that wouldn't do well in a whiteboard algorithm interview. The people that tend to do well, are the ones that have a lot of practice with the kind of problems.
> Wouldn't this value experience and knowledge (like everything you learned in university) at zero? Having switched professions twice, I now use practically nothing of what I learned in university from about second year forward. Math and to some extent physics are still relevant, but that's pretty much it. It might be painful to admit, but the practical value of that rather specialized knowledge that took me several…
> It might be painful to admit, but the practical value of that rather specialized knowledge that took me several years of hard work to obtain is pretty much zero now.
It's sad that your professors didn't tell you beforehand that you were going to learn how to learn during that time, not just study a particular technology stack.
Re: Ask HN: Has there been any academic research into software interviewing?
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> Wouldn't this value experience and knowledge (like everything you learned in university) at zero? Having switched professions twice, I now use practically nothing of what I learned in university from about second year forward. Math and to some extent physics are still relevant, but that's pretty much it. It might be painful to admit, but the practical value of that rather specialized knowledge that took me several…
> It might be painful to admit, but the practical value of that rather specialized knowledge that took me several years of hard work to obtain is pretty much zero now. It's sad that your professors didn't tell you beforehand that you were going to learn how to learn during that time, not just study a particular technology stack.
I thought that was fairly common knowledge about a great deal of university education.
Re: Ask HN: Has there been any academic research into software interviewing?
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I can't agree with this. High IQ can't be everything. Wouldn't this value experience and knowledge (like everything you learned in university) at zero? Imo there are a lot of great/amazing and productive Software Engineers that wouldn't do well in a whiteboard algorithm interview. The people that tend to do well, are the ones that have a lot of practice with the kind of problems.
> Wouldn't this value experience and knowledge (like everything you learned in university) at zero? Having switched professions twice, I now use practically nothing of what I learned in university from about second year forward. Math and to some extent physics are still relevant, but that's pretty much it. It might be painful to admit, but the practical value of that rather specialized knowledge that took me several…
I bet it wasn't a total waste. The real point of school, particularly university, is to learn how to learn rather than learn a bunch of facts or tools. Attending university probably made it a lot easier for you to switch professions twice.