Silly question, why not chat (which can be saved for review etc) instead of audio?
I suppose they could do the same with audio. Save it and perhaps also provide transcripts.
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#42I pressed the "sign up" button and . . . nothing happened.
For me a popup appeared with a Github auth window. It's possible that your browser blocked the popup.
I did email, not Github. I no more want to log in with Github than I want to log in with Facebook.
EDIT It seems to crash in the background if you have a "+" in your email address.
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#43I've been using https://www.interviewcake.com and highly recommend it. It's just a series of problems you work through combined with advice.
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#44I love the footnote on the homepage ;)
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#45I like this in concept. It's like how major symphony orchestras hire, put a curtain up between the performer and the judges so that the performer is never seen and is assessed solely on the merits of their performance. Interesting to see how it might play out in practice through this site.
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#46Great...so when everyone does this and becomes good at technical interviews, SV companies will find some other meaningless, high pressure method to screen job candidates. "Steal a bone from this agitated rottweiler while you recite every other fibonacci number up to 20"
I think this is an extremely pessimistic view of what is likely to happen. Being good at interviewing (on both the candidate and interviewer side) doesn't mean that you get jobs you aren't qualified for, it means presenting a more accurate picture of your skills or what the job is. Anything that moves us in that direction is probably good.
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#47This looks great. These days I skip all interviews which require me to code in the interview. I have plenty of open source code, if they cannot figure how good I am looking at, then they definitely cannot figure how good I am with a 3 hour coding interview. IMO, coding interviews is like public speaking. Many people get nervous in front of a crowd. It's a skill one has to obtain should it be required. Coding intervie…
>I have plenty of open source code, if they cannot figure how good I am looking at...
I've interviewed several people with lots of code on github and what looks like lots of accepted pull requests to many projects who still can't seem to reason through a problem described as "write a function that takes two unsorted lists and returns one sorted list".
I think I'll continue asking technical/coding questions...
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#48This looks great. These days I skip all interviews which require me to code in the interview. I have plenty of open source code, if they cannot figure how good I am looking at, then they definitely cannot figure how good I am with a 3 hour coding interview. IMO, coding interviews is like public speaking. Many people get nervous in front of a crowd. It's a skill one has to obtain should it be required. Coding intervie…
For me, even worse than an in person interview is a remote coding interview over the phone. Usually some sort of screen sharing + phone call. I find it incredibly nerve wracking because it gives me that feeling of someone standing over my shoulder without me being able to fully interact with them or read their body language. When you sit down to hammer out a solution you have all the additional pressure of trying to…
Worse, you simply have no way of knowing what their evaluation criteria are.
Maybe they want you to be slow and thorough (I've been nailed for not checking the exit status of print statements). OR maybe they want it quick and dirty, in which case you'll get nailed for "overengineering", or you just wont have time to do it the imaginary time frames they set for these tasks, if you go for any of the defensive practices that the other guy would have nailed you for. Fun, fun, fun.
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#49This looks great. These days I skip all interviews which require me to code in the interview. I have plenty of open source code, if they cannot figure how good I am looking at, then they definitely cannot figure how good I am with a 3 hour coding interview. IMO, coding interviews is like public speaking. Many people get nervous in front of a crowd. It's a skill one has to obtain should it be required. Coding intervie…
Exactly my thinking as well. Dig in, look around, its obvious what I can do, and what I'm capable of learning. Ask me to code a sample app and comment every function with detailed explanations of my thought process. Add me as a collaborator to GitHub and request that I make some pull requests on your product. Live coding interviews are more irrelevant than irrelevant and completely ignore the fact that many people --…
Coding interviews don't ignore any facts - they are simply often the best signal/time tool available. Many people do not have time to root around in your personal repositories or wait for you to commit pull requests. They have a pipeline of people they need to screen, and you can't wait on everyone in a pool of candidates to take their sweet time before deciding on a winner.
Technical screens are synchronous and relatively well understood. If they are not the literally BEST choice of time for figuring out if someone is a good developer, they are at least a very defensible choice.
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#50This is very interesting. This is one of the few actual disruptions that I've seen in the interviewing/hiring space. One small issue: I don't know what I'm getting into when I join the waiting list. I understand what the site is about, if I join will I suddenly be asked to take an interview next Friday? It would be nice to know a little more about the process.
A walkthrough video would be nice. I've never had a "technical interview" and don't know what it entails, for example. Should there maybe be a pre-testing phase to weed out those who could simply not approach the level that could pass the technical interview?
thanks! video is in the works.