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Honestly, if you weren't in the room you can't tell what happened. It's just as likely that he wasn't a good culture fit.
"Cultural fit" - I forgot this term existed outside of the HBO television show "Silicon Valley".
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Yep - for all their talk about how traditional interviewing is broken, if you go through their screening process, you'll discover that it devolves into the same old puzzles and algorithms questions you get in any other interview. The result being that a terrible software engineer who had spent some time memorizing the highlights of CLRS would do much better on a TripleByte interview than a good software engineer who…
Hey, one of the Triplebyte founders here. We do using coding problems but we try hard to mitigate the issues you bring up. We give candidates a selection of problems to choose from and we'll often explain how to solve a problem if it seems they're getting stuck. We're less interested in sudden flashes of insight and more looking to see if someone can write code and implement ideas they talk about. We know it's still…
Perhaps as well as take home tests you could consider a longer form one which builds a feature using several methods, offering help if required so most people don't get stuck. Say parsing a set of data files, something like that.
When hiring I've found walking through something like real work with candidates most useful, and also crucially using the same challenge for all for comparison.
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Yeah, I agree. I mainly mention it because the way people comment about office designs around here, you'd think it was the only factor considered. But it might also just be cathartic to talk about disdain for open plan offices.
I had some coworkers that really couldn't deal with noise or open-plan offices. For them, it's really important that they have a quiet private office. For the majority of my coworkers, they didn't care, and did just fine in an open-plan office. I think it's one of those things where if it's important to you, it's really important to you, but it's not important to all that many people. Which would make it a good sorti…
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"Cultural fit" - I forgot this term existed outside of the HBO television show "Silicon Valley".
It's a nice catchall phrase for all kinds of discrimination that would be illegal if stated explicitly. If we call it a gut feeling or culture fit, it's suddenly legal.
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"Cultural fit" - I forgot this term existed outside of the HBO television show "Silicon Valley".
It's a nice catchall phrase for all kinds of discrimination that would be illegal if stated explicitly. If we call it a gut feeling or culture fit, it's suddenly legal.
It's very hard to find hardware engineering startup jobs, and this is a space where your site could really stand out.
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It's a nice catchall phrase for all kinds of discrimination that would be illegal if stated explicitly. If we call it a gut feeling or culture fit, it's suddenly legal.
It is important to work with people who are you are comfortable working with.