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I'd bet good money OtherBranch will succeed.
I took their quiz without thinking once from a throwaway account because I was afraid of taking it from a real account and also because I had no context about what would be in it, which made it seem high risk. That made me realize it wasn't as scary a thing as I was afraid it might be, but also kind of summerizes what I don't love about it. Later, I think I took the quiz from a real email. I think could have schedule…
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Oooh, this lets me tell a great anecdote that didn't have a place in the post. So it turns out you were not alone. Getting people who did well on the quiz - whose parameters were trained on interview performance, by the way, so "did well on the quiz" was synonymous with "had a good shot at the interview" - to sign up for interviews was a major problem for a while. The solution? We told them the first booking was just…
I've never had two in-person interviews that were at all similar in any way. Maybe instead of a 'practice' interview people can just be told what to expect so they know how to prepare. Offering practice interviews just makes it sound like the interview is a performance.
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I'd say it's the exact opposite. There are hordes of unqualified people applying to every software dev role imaginable regardless of what you put in the job description or requirements. The tests are there because people are good at lying but bad at faking skills.
Seriously, if you've never hired before, you have no idea how bad this can get. Here's [1] our practice coding problem. It's quite similar to the one we use on our interview, and not too far from the one Triplebyte used in the past (ours is tuned to be slightly harder at the beginning and slightly easier at the end). The vast majority of candidates, even with some reasonable pre-filtering, do not get past the first s…
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I have and you are right, it's terrible. However, I'm coming from Ops side of the house so my knowledge on Dev Hiring is talking to them and making sure they are not going to launch LedgerStore without talking to us first. Ops I'm more experienced with. However, looking at Other Branch example test, it's another data structure question which I would totally bomb. Is this really the end all be all to dev hiring? If th…
You consider that a "data structure question"? Honest question - I would (do) characterize it as a sort of "fizzbuzz+" that is deliberately NOT data-structure-y, and I'm surprised by this response. Can you give an example of short coding tasks you would consider not data-structure-y? (For the record, we do ask about DBs and system design in other sections of the interview. The coding is one portion of three for the i…
Maybe I'm just thinking too much problem, overloaded my small attention brain and misread it. I wouldn't call Fizzbuzz data structure-y however.
I'm also mostly outsider looking in. Never worked at FAANG and working with YC companies, I come on much later and tends to be more keeping the lights on and stopping the duct tape rocket from exploding.
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I have and you are right, it's terrible. However, I'm coming from Ops side of the house so my knowledge on Dev Hiring is talking to them and making sure they are not going to launch LedgerStore without talking to us first. Ops I'm more experienced with. However, looking at Other Branch example test, it's another data structure question which I would totally bomb. Is this really the end all be all to dev hiring? If th…
You consider that a "data structure question"? Honest question - I would (do) characterize it as a sort of "fizzbuzz+" that is deliberately NOT data-structure-y, and I'm surprised by this response. Can you give an example of short coding tasks you would consider not data-structure-y? (For the record, we do ask about DBs and system design in other sections of the interview. The coding is one portion of three for the i…
Edit: beaten, yes they were overthinking it.
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You consider that a "data structure question"? Honest question - I would (do) characterize it as a sort of "fizzbuzz+" that is deliberately NOT data-structure-y, and I'm surprised by this response. Can you give an example of short coding tasks you would consider not data-structure-y? (For the record, we do ask about DBs and system design in other sections of the interview. The coding is one portion of three for the i…
I think its because the person is thinking you are looking for something especially smart when in fact something like a list of lists would be fine enough, if you can explain the tradeoffs for using them. Edit: beaten, yes they were overthinking it.
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I have and you are right, it's terrible. However, I'm coming from Ops side of the house so my knowledge on Dev Hiring is talking to them and making sure they are not going to launch LedgerStore without talking to us first. Ops I'm more experienced with. However, looking at Other Branch example test, it's another data structure question which I would totally bomb. Is this really the end all be all to dev hiring? If th…
You consider that a "data structure question"? Honest question - I would (do) characterize it as a sort of "fizzbuzz+" that is deliberately NOT data-structure-y, and I'm surprised by this response. Can you give an example of short coding tasks you would consider not data-structure-y? (For the record, we do ask about DBs and system design in other sections of the interview. The coding is one portion of three for the i…
There's a funny contrast between the beginning where they want a meritocracy of candidates and the end, where they are only interested in Americans from prestigious universities.