We analyzed 100K technical interviews to see where the best performers work
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We analyzed 100K technical interviews to see where the best performers work
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#2Looks like Dropbox has trouble retaining tech talent?
Re: We analyzed 100K technical interviews to see where the best performers work
#3> There’s also the issue of selection bias. Maybe we’re just getting people who really feel like they need practice and aren’t an indicative slice of engineers at that company.
Or that your interview preparation platform prepares candidates better for Dropbox's interview process than it does for Microsoft's. Or that the people who were confident in their interview skills for Facebook decided not to use your platform. Or that these companies have different interview processes and selection criteria (they obviously do) so ranking "best" based on performance on different tests doesn't tell you that much.
There's hundreds of different ways to slice this data to come up with different hypotheses about what's actually occurring.
Re: We analyzed 100K technical interviews to see where the best performers work
#4Alternatively, s/where the best performers work/where the best performers run from/
Re: We analyzed 100K technical interviews to see where the best performers work
#5This study assumes that the companies have similar rates of people wanting to leave.
Re: We analyzed 100K technical interviews to see where the best performers work
#6I think people put too much effort and time in this whole interview business.
My suggestion, based on my experience, is to spend a reasonable time like a month, brushing up on most common data structures and algo.
Then just take your chances. Rinse and repeat.
Re: We analyzed 100K technical interviews to see where the best performers work
#7Looks like Dropbox has trouble retaining tech talent?
Author here. We didn't publish a histogram showing how many users we have from each company, so I guess you'll have to trust me on this one. Dropbox has waaaay fewer engineers on interviewing.io per capita than some of the other companies... many of whom didn't make the top ten list.
In our experience, they're quite good at retaining talent.
Re: We analyzed 100K technical interviews to see where the best performers work
#8> There’s also the issue of selection bias. Maybe we’re just getting people who really feel like they need practice and aren’t an indicative slice of engineers at that company. Or that your interview preparation platform prepares candidates better for Dropbox's interview process than it does for Microsoft's. Or that the people who were confident in their interview skills for Facebook decided not to use your platform.…
Author here. The data is mostly drawn from how people who work at these companies do in mock interviews rather than how our users do in real interviews with these companies.
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#9No Facebook/Meta? That’s a little surprising to me.
Re: We analyzed 100K technical interviews to see where the best performers work
#10No Facebook/Meta? That’s a little surprising to me.
In all the graphs save one.