Interview advice that got me offers

Post by shemnon42 » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 6:14 AM UTC

closeparen wrote: post #267

symlinkk wrote: post #245

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So you’re not going to answer the question I guess?

You get classroom training, shadow hours, supervised hours, and certification on a particular type of interview. From that day forward any open slot on your calendar is fair game for Recruiting to schedule, up to 3 per week. You might get away with a "No" RSVP if you have a good excuse, but not in general. It's part of your job.

Post by syspec » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 6:21 AM UTC

dcolkitt wrote: post #159

MattGaiser wrote: post #28

> Keeping those skills sharp even when you’re not job hunting. Can I just add "Leetcoder" as a part time job on my resume? It is amusing how in this industry, your ability to interview will not at all be improved by spending time doing your job unless it is algo heavy. It is a separate job entirely.

The reality is that industrial psychology has consistently found that fluid intelligence is the best predictor of job performance. Even more so than experience.[0] Whiteboard interviews are used, not because they have a lot of relevance to the job, but because they're a hard-to-fake indicator of high intelligence. Somebody who shows a lot of mental fluidity with complex data structures, almost assuredly can quickly m…

Post by syspec » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 6:53 AM UTC

agustif wrote: post #71

I need to get a good software engineering job, BUT I'm tired of the take home projects, the 5 phase interviews just to drop you 1h before a final -not important just burecreacy-google meeting with the VP of Engineering, recuriter just tells you there's been some internal miss-communication on the roles they're hiring and they're not looking for frontend roles anymore, and they're sorry... Nevermind I'm pretty good at…

Post by an_opabinia » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 6:58 AM UTC

dcolkitt wrote: post #159

MattGaiser wrote: post #28

> Keeping those skills sharp even when you’re not job hunting. Can I just add "Leetcoder" as a part time job on my resume? It is amusing how in this industry, your ability to interview will not at all be improved by spending time doing your job unless it is algo heavy. It is a separate job entirely.

The reality is that industrial psychology has consistently found that fluid intelligence is the best predictor of job performance. Even more so than experience.[0] Whiteboard interviews are used, not because they have a lot of relevance to the job, but because they're a hard-to-fake indicator of high intelligence. Somebody who shows a lot of mental fluidity with complex data structures, almost assuredly can quickly m…

Post by Cd00d » Thu, Dec 24, 2020, 7:05 AM UTC

908B64B197 wrote: post #104

nrmitchi wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I've rejected people for showing negative non-technical traits I'm not an expert, but this can be a really slippery slope to implicit bias creeping in to your hiring decisions, especially if these traits are outside of your area of interview/expertise.

In some cases you are effectively screening out senior engineers that have pretty much reached their plateau. They won't learn anything new and they don't want to learn anything new. There's a difference between 10 years of experience and 10x one year of experience.