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We built a crowdsourced interview question database for tech interviews

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Re: We built a crowdsourced interview question database for tech interviews

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Post by AlotOfReading »

windward wrote: post #25
AnimalMuppet wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It should be. If the interview tests for what you crammed for, it doesn't test for what you'll remember a month onto the job. That's a sub-optimal strategy for the interviewer.

Devil's advocate: there exists a corpus of questions solvable with a small number of techniques after a few weeks of decicated study. When someone has the right brain, these questions are the barrier to a 99th percentile income. What does it say about an interviewee that doesn't bother?

It says they lack the social capital to know what these questions are and how to study them. Is the goal to optimize for people with family and friends already in tech that can pass on the "secret" or to maintain the fig leaf illusion of meritocracy?

Re: We built a crowdsourced interview question database for tech interviews

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Post by blindriver »

INTPenis wrote: post #4

Kinda sad that it has come to this. Maybe I'm naive but I think an interview should be an honest exchange of what you actually know, not what you crammed for before the interview.

It hasn't been an honest exchange of what you actually know in over 20 years.

Re: We built a crowdsourced interview question database for tech interviews

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Post by ericjmorey »

zeroq wrote: post #40

As a hiring manager or company owner (I wore both hats) I developed a routine during the interview that basically leads to a breaking point. I want to either drill down your bullet points to find out if you're actually an expert in XYZ as the resume claims, or work with you on a coding problem that's simple to understand yet more complex than leetcode challenges. I don't expect you to ace, but I want to check if you'…

You're not filtering on honesty, but desperation. The desperate will lie because of the higher stakes for themselves.

Re: We built a crowdsourced interview question database for tech interviews

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Post by apical_dendrite »

kube-system wrote: post #28

Might want to include a DMCA takedown address, so that you don't get them sent to your upstream provider. I regularly submit takedown requests to other sites when I see my interview questions posted there. I'm sure others do as well.

Is an interview question copyrightable?

I am sure that if someone is uploading the specific wording of an interview question, then that would potentially be a copyright violation. But if they're just describing the problem in their own words (for instance "I was asked to design a system for selling movie tickets") then there shouldn't be a copyright issue.

Re: We built a crowdsourced interview question database for tech interviews

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Post by nsxwolf »

kyawzazaw wrote: post #38
nsxwolf wrote: post #11

For those who work in the dark matter of the industry, there are no real resources because most places don't even have "question banks". When an interview request pops up on my calendar, I just go out and find a random question - it's totally disposable and unlikely to be used again, and we don't interview enough for someone to compile enough information on us. None of the places I've interviewed at in the last 5 yea…

It's definitely reused again. And there are definitely question banks. I saw my team go through (the company recommended lists) in a meeting and we selected some questions

Yes, question banks exist. I'm talking about the company I work for and in fact all the companies I have ever worked for. We did not use question banks.
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