Behavioural interviews are extremely effective provided you do them properly. Running behavioural interviews properly is extremely difficult and takes legitimate skill and experience to orchestrate. It's not something you can pull off by simply following a few rote questions in an interview pack. As a result, most behavioural interviews are ineffective and absolutely riddled with bias.
Yes, I agree with you. I've seen this done well and I've seen it done horribly. Do you think its better not to do them?
If they are done well then you should absolutely do them. Anything not done well isn't worth doing.
> Most jobs are now hoops after hoops, not taking into consideration your particular profile or the contributions you can make. I’ve done some mentoring of CS grads for the past few years. We some times get people with unreasonable interview demands, like companies asking them to make an entire app or website for the interview process. We advise them to decline the really excessive ones. However, it’s rare to see tha…
> when they describe the process it adds up to around 4-5 hours total 4-5 hours is pretty excessive for an interview process actually. A candidate cannot be doing 4-5 hours for an interview process just to hear a no at the end. Successful job hunts need to have many irons in the fire at once and if each one is taking 4-5 hours there's only so much you can realistically take on I know that interview processes generall…
"4-5 hours is pretty excessive for an interview process actually."
I have been asked for basically two weeks of work. I don't think it is unreasonable. You just have to ask "10k okay?"
I had an opportunity to work for Outlier as an AI trainer/reviewer, the point was to beat the AI models. The role doesn't relate to SWE duties, but it was a good money. Like someone swimming in the ocean when he finds a small tiny isle and takes a break for next miles.
The job market is weird. It seems there are more and more candidates on the market. However, whenever I recruit for senior roles, it seems the candidates are less and less skilled. This is highly anecdotal. The job post is the same: sr. java developer. Everyone has 5+ years of experience. I need someone who can: - explain in depth how a HashMap works - verbally pseudocode a program that solves a problem, where an ade…
Don't mean to be rude, but does the job posting list a competitive salary?
Now that they're required to list salaries in coastal states I filter for that while searching and don't even consider jobs paying under $[threshold]k.
Does that company hire or recruiter hire h1b? In order to get h1b approval, you have to make the case that "we interviewed x,000 people and we just can't find any qualified applicants! ". I'm starting to suspect that the industry has learned to set salaries low and churn enough applicants in order to reduce costs. One way to churn them is to do a phone screen and find a quick way to legally get rid of them. Then once…
This has been going on for decades. 1. Find H1B candidate you want to hire. 2. Write job requirements matching that candidate’s experience so well it’s very unlikely for anyone else to meet those requirements. 3. Advertise position to meet legal requirements and reject any candidates not exactly matching requirements. 4. Hire H1B candidate.
Note that #3 is one of the "let's see how far we can bend that definition" things too. You will occasionally see this listed in a local newspaper classified postings ( https://imgur.com/W76Jdbn is one such example).
> Most jobs are now hoops after hoops, not taking into consideration your particular profile or the contributions you can make. I’ve done some mentoring of CS grads for the past few years. We some times get people with unreasonable interview demands, like companies asking them to make an entire app or website for the interview process. We advise them to decline the really excessive ones. However, it’s rare to see tha…
> when they describe the process it adds up to around 4-5 hours total 4-5 hours is pretty excessive for an interview process actually. A candidate cannot be doing 4-5 hours for an interview process just to hear a no at the end. Successful job hunts need to have many irons in the fire at once and if each one is taking 4-5 hours there's only so much you can realistically take on I know that interview processes generall…
That's a time investment for a serious consideration, and I don't think it's unreasonable at all. Nobody is making you spend that time, but if you choose not to, understand that plenty of qualified people will happily do so and get the job.
Will Trump reverse these changes? Will he lower interest rates?
Trump may face a Democratic House and that would make him unable to change tax rates. People forget that the president as of now is not a dictator - to Trumps dismay of course.
While the flip still seems unlikely, this probably doesn't matter either way for 174 -- currently any bill that passes is likely to have the 174 fix in it, because it has bipartisan support. The problem has been that it's attached to other tax changes that haven't been able to get through the Senate, and Sen. Crapo is intentionally stalling until after the election, because the GOP thinks it'll have more seats and will be able to get a bill they like better.
The author's tone is condescending, angry and entitled. If everyday interactions with him followed the same tone, I would argue that he is the exact type of person behavioral interviews are meant to screen out (technically competent but a nightmare to work with).
I didn't feel he was angry at all. Just a person with a hughe passion about his craft and how he dislikes the change of the work environment of IT. Completely reasonable for me.
I will add my two cents for people who believe that this might be related only to the SWE and tangent industries: It's really not. I have many friends (in Europe) who are trying to get through to different jobs in unrelated industries ranging from finance to fashion, or just trying to get promoted vertically (or horizontally), failing rather miserably. Most jobs are now hoops after hoops, not taking into consideratio…
> I have many friends (in Europe) EU kind of in a recession though. And there's a well known link between interest rates and unemployment. So it's really not surprising to hear that employment in the EU is harder after the ECB raised rates. And good news: they're lowering them now. What really needs explaining is why, despite the unusually strong general US job market[1] for several years now, the US tech market spec…
Three reasons for techmageddon right now. (1) USA had a boomer savings bubble 2010-2022 with boomers in the peak savings years of their lives, resulting in the lowest interest rates in a century, never to return, (2) Covid19 created a work from home and therefore tech bubble, pulling lots of demand forward, (c) IMHO after a decade of lies from FAANGs about how easy it is to get a $200k salary, and how easy it is to sustain these 60hr/wk jobs (impossible; turnover rates are very very high on purpose), all schools are overproducing CS grads. The three of these mistakes have created a perfect storm, worse than the Y2000 bubble ...
Wild that explanations of the tech job market like this are still being written without referencing the tax consequences of Section 174 changes.
Will Trump reverse these changes? Will he lower interest rates?
It largely doesn't depend on him, but the 174 fix itself has bipartisan support. But so far they've been unable to craft a whole tax bill that will pass the Senate, because of other disagreements, and now Sen. Crapo is holding the bill because he thinks they'll be able to get a bill they like better next year (though they're talking about making the 174 changes retroactive to 2021).
Interest rates will almost certainly get lower in the next term, regardless of who's in the White House.