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Author here. I debated this, but the state of Google and YouTube together and certain things internally led me to just look for external opportunities. Probably would've been less stressful. Lol.
I wonder why 7 of your comments have been killed (dead) maybe it's the new HN account or something?
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I wonder why 7 of your comments have been killed (dead) maybe it's the new HN account or something?
(submitter) Maybe. I have emailed the moderators to see if the comments can be restored.
I bet this AI slop image is actually leaning more towards photos of a counselor at a hospital or clinic.
Because it has several things that not only don't make sense for the prompted situation, but also suggest terrible HR for a company big enough to have ID lanyards.
A generic corporate stock photo would have a better chance of being appropriate.
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So exactly what kind of interviews do you suggest that a company do at scale to hire people who will make $300K+ a year? Just talk them?
Why not? People can't fake their way through a deeply technical, probing, 2-hour conversation. You'd be amazed just how much you can learn about someone's actual skills and experience (or lack thereof) through long-form discussion. I think we don't truly talk enough in our currently broken interview process.
Tried to read through the article, but couldn't finish. I felt this writing heavily alluded to a ChatGPT generated response. Too many punchlines and paragraph breaks.
If paragraph breaks are a sign of LLM slop now, then I’m in trouble. The ones in my blog posts are rarely longer than 2 sentences and they are all handcrafted. I have a hard time staying focused when reading long paragraphs and that includes rereading my own while I write them.
I'm sorry, but why did the author not mark this post as AI generated? It's clear from many different phrasings that this was written with an LLM. And no, I won't point out any particular spot, but I'm sure my fellow commenters will know what I am talking about. I acknowledge that the author (probably) had indeed experienced the things described (at least most of them, as LLMs often like to add details here and there)…
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So exactly what kind of interviews do you suggest that a company do at scale to hire people who will make $300K+ a year? Just talk them?
Why not? People can't fake their way through a deeply technical, probing, 2-hour conversation. You'd be amazed just how much you can learn about someone's actual skills and experience (or lack thereof) through long-form discussion. I think we don't truly talk enough in our currently broken interview process.
My current job was also behavioral where I am a staff architect at a 3rd party company and it does require coding. As an interviewer, I also only do behavioral interviews. But let’s be realistic, it doesn’t take much to be a competent enterprise dev or even an enterprise architect.
The type of hard problems that BigTech has to solve is completely different. While I would never have trusted any developer I ever met at AWS within 100 feet of a customer, they also shouldn’t let me within 100 feet of the code that runs any of the AWS services.
Even at my medium size consulting company we have a 0.4% application/offer rate. Can you imagine what it is at BigTech? How do you filter just by talking to someone?
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Exactly, that’s why I feel pity for the people who destroy their lives to get paid extra 5% and having a pizza party with good boy remarks, and of course making someone else wealthier too. It’s not a flex to sleep in a tent at work, while neglecting your health, family, friends, maybe kids, this “grind” culture is pushed by corporations for obvious reasons.
Except at big tech the next level might be 500k more not 5%
Even at Netflix who is famous for "all cash, no stock, almost never bonuses": https://www.levels.fyi/companies/netflix/salaries/software-e...
Biggest jump is 400K and that's at L7, for Principal SE, the top level. Below that each level is about a $100-150K jump. Nothing to complain about, to be clear.
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So exactly what kind of interviews do you suggest that a company do at scale to hire people who will make $300K+ a year? Just talk them?
Do CEOs and other executives have to go through leetcode-style interviews to be considered for their jobs?