Technical interview methods pale in comparison to playing Factorio with someone
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Re: Technical interview methods pale in comparison to playing Factorio with someone
#2It seems like Factorio itself doesn't matter here, and that any programming language can be used instead.
So really, this article is saying "live, self-directed coding is the best technical interview", which isn't very original.
Re: Technical interview methods pale in comparison to playing Factorio with someone
#3How well does Factorio performance correlate with job performance over different periods of time and different employee backgrounds?
I don't see this mentioned in the article.
Re: Technical interview methods pale in comparison to playing Factorio with someone
#4It seems like Factorio itself doesn't matter here, and that any programming language can be used instead. So really, this article is saying "live, self-directed coding is the best technical interview", which isn't very original.
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Re: Technical interview methods pale in comparison to playing Factorio with someone
#5How well does Factorio performance correlate with job performance over different periods of time and different employee backgrounds? I don't see this mentioned in the article.
Your comment assumes that both 'Factorio performance' and 'job performance' are measurable. That is questionable, in my opinion.
Re: Technical interview methods pale in comparison to playing Factorio with someone
#6How can this not have a huge bias in favor of gamers?
Might work for them because that's the kind of culture fit they need, but I doesn't look all that generalizable for other companies.
Re: Technical interview methods pale in comparison to playing Factorio with someone
#7I don't know that I agree. I don't really play games so I would be a bit lost here, but if you needed me to design and start coding a large distributed system I would happily oblige while he watched...
Re: Technical interview methods pale in comparison to playing Factorio with someone
#8How well does Factorio performance correlate with job performance over different periods of time and different employee backgrounds? I don't see this mentioned in the article.
Your comment assumes that both 'Factorio performance' and 'job performance' are measurable. That is questionable, in my opinion.
If someone is going to argue that Factorio is a useful tool for technical interviews, it's only reasonable to expect that they will present a visible correlation between in-game performance and real-life performance. Otherwise, how is this anything other than a novel just-so story?
Re: Technical interview methods pale in comparison to playing Factorio with someone
#9I don't think there is any silver bullet way to do technical interviews. The idea that you can extrapolate a few hours of exposure to a person into a reliable predictor of future performance is somewhat silly to me. Any technique you use is going to be biased for people that are good at "X", where "X" is a tiny subset of what you need in an employee.
Obviously, you still need to do interviews, but keep some perspective when deciding. Don't overweight any one thing.
Re: Technical interview methods pale in comparison to playing Factorio with someone
#10An amusing thought experiment but obviously it would have catastrophic consequences in real life... Pretty much anyone can get good at the game by watching Let’s Plays or reading guides.