If You Want This Job, We Must Interview You Forever
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If You Want This Job, We Must Interview You Forever
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#2> "Phase three starts at 8 a.m. sharp, next Monday, and lasts for fourteen Pomodoro-timer cycles, concluding at 5:38 p.m."
Unfortunately, this sounds dreadful and yet completely plausible. Pomodoros, or taking short breaks every once in a while, really are useful for avoiding stretching out tasks, though.
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#3Satire but rings true a bit about the current interview/hiring climate.
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#4Do you know the meme on Reddit that shows a blob in a square, deciding to give the outside world a try, gets punched and says never again?
That’s how I feel when I try to interview for an software engineering role.
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#5Do you know the meme on Reddit that shows a blob in a square, deciding to give the outside world a try, gets punched and says never again? That’s how I feel when I try to interview for an software engineering role.
There’s enough competition for good software engineers you don’t really need to do this to yourself. You won’t get in a FAANG but if a process is getting really annoying like this just withdraw.
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#6Going through this right now, not for the first time.
I always wonder if they ever actually fill the position for which I was a candidate.
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#7Sad someone out there will assume this is for real and plan to change their interviewing to this. I've been in interviews where you had to talk with every single person on the team (8, half of which didn't show); a gang interview with me in the middle for several hours; 4 separate interviews with multiple people who all asked complicated puzzle questions; and a place where every team member talked about how they did a part of every job (architect designed classes, lead designed methods, and programmers filled them out), etc. Insanity in interviews knows no bounds.
Two of the best programmers I ever worked with I interviewed over the phone for an hour each and that was it.
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#8 FROM: jobs@bubbleapp.com
DATE: October 5, 2022
Dear Applicant,
As you may be aware, the past three weeks have been a test. You have been “working” at a facsimile of our HQ staffed by trained actors.
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#9If a company sets expectations accordingly I don't mind having several rounds. It gives me time to interview them too. I just think we all need to agree on which poison to fight and that's Taleo.
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#10Sad someone out there will assume this is for real and plan to change their interviewing to this. I've been in interviews where you had to talk with every single person on the team (8, half of which didn't show); a gang interview with me in the middle for several hours; 4 separate interviews with multiple people who all asked complicated puzzle questions; and a place where every team member talked about how they did…
There’s a form of dysfunction if a team can’t trust a subset of the team to make a decision on a new team member.
Likely it’s an attempt to avoid all possible blame.