I mean, if theres people that need this i won't judge - but im in tech for ~20 years now and its really not hard to formulate interview questions if you know what the target position is and also have a little of social skills.
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I struggled early in my career with interviews. Granted this was 2008-2010 era so the job market was not great, especially in a not-quite-urban non-coastal city where I was for a junior developer. But something did change when I stopped treating interviews as "convince them to like me" / "convince them to hire me" and started treating them as "find out if I want to work (in order) 1) at this company, 2) on this proje…
What makes those questions ok for Tier-1 companies to ask, in your opinion?
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#33Kinda 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.
> 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.
All the way back in ~2012, Amazon's own recruiters were recommending candidates cram "Cracking the Code Interview" (to the surprise of the actual interviewers, who didn't want you doing that). This is the way things have been for a long time now.
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#34Kinda 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.
I struggled early in my career with interviews. Granted this was 2008-2010 era so the job market was not great, especially in a not-quite-urban non-coastal city where I was for a junior developer. But something did change when I stopped treating interviews as "convince them to like me" / "convince them to hire me" and started treating them as "find out if I want to work (in order) 1) at this company, 2) on this proje…
I've had two "Online Assessments," as they're called, in the past couple of weeks and they're even weirder than that now. The request access to my desktop, webcam, microphone, akin to a proctored exam. They don't let you use your own editor, or even leave the window. There is no one there to interact with, ask clarifying questions, etc. It then plays everything back with keystrokes sync'd to video/audio for the reviewer.
If I have to go through that bullshit, I would at least like the opportunity to use it to show how I think, ask clarifying questions even if it is just to show understanding of edge cases, create some small talk, etc.
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I agree but I companies like Meta/Apple/Amazon hire so much that they probably have full time statisticians just to analyze interview process and map that back to performance. So you have to assume this maps to real world success. Even if you are just testing an employee's preparation, maybe that means something.
It's not probably. The hiring rubric gets items added/dropped based on what portions are statistically significant when compared to post-hire performance reviews. There's a lot of research in the public about "Structured Interviews".
When I was an engineer at Amazon, we all just made up our own questions, or passed fun ones around the office. I assume the Bar Raisers probably had an actual rubric, but the rest of us didn't (and we all had interviewing quotas to meet)
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#37Maybe after this “takes off”, they can explore some other domains. “We built a crowdsourced examiner question database for pilot exams.” “We built a crowdsourced set of best responses for marginalized peoples who come in contact with hostile police officers.” So on, so forth. Then they can franchise it into a set of “exchanges”.
They do actually have crowdsourced databases for pilot exams now that the question bank is not longer published by the FAA
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#38For 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
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#39Hot take - these types of interviews are caused by "elite overproduction" - there are too many very qualified and capable programmers, so the end result is a process that is selecting for the most agreeable and obedient personalities who agree to put up with these gauntlets.
If by “elite” you call everyone who can write some js then sure.
If you mean developers that know at least something about software- then this is definitely not the case.
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#40As 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're honest and willing to admit your limitations - my philosophy is that I hire humans, not compilers, no one knows how everything, and I'd rather have someone who's fast finding correct answers on the internet than someone who had memorized a book.
That's how I like to do it. Its been so long that I don't even remember when I myself was treated this way during an interview.