The dystopian world of software engineering interviews
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The dystopian world of software engineering interviews
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#2What does it mean for the industry when there's one of these articles on the front page every other week?
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#3In addition to all of the very dystopian examples given in this post, there are other non-technical, super-dystopian things that have been popping up as "trends" in the tech industry.
Ever heard of top-grading? It's the most oppressive interview technique of all time. A series of grueling multi-person interviews. A retrospective of all work experiences since high school. You also have to get multiple prior employers as references. Apparently top-grading is used to weed out "liars". Imagine what kind of place optimizes to find liars; maybe one with a problem with a lot lying? I've heard Twitter uses this technique (or did last year when my friend interviewed with them).
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#4What does it mean for the industry when there's one of these articles on the front page every other week?
The HR folks do not care, it's not their metric to bother about.
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#5In addition to all of the very dystopian examples given in this post, there are other non-technical, super-dystopian things that have been popping up as "trends" in the tech industry. Ever heard of top-grading? It's the most oppressive interview technique of all time. A series of grueling multi-person interviews. A retrospective of all work experiences since high school . You also have to get multiple prior employers…
Yet, the people who pass the grueling gauntlet will still be dumped on a fringe feature team with a first- or second-time engineering manager within 2 years of your age, and a PM that's fresh out of college (or worse, just finished MBA) who is spending 100% of their time learning how to use Jira instead of how to build product.
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#6Well, if you pass that interview, you then get to help Giant Search and Advertising Company make the world an even more dystopian place...
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#7What does it mean for the industry when there's one of these articles on the front page every other week?
The HR folks do not care, it's not their metric to bother about.
But the average HR rep doesn't determine the technical questions! The culpability falls squarely on the engineers who devise these tests.
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#8What does it mean for the industry when there's one of these articles on the front page every other week?
People misjudge where their high compensation package comes from.
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#9Interviews are so bad because there are too many capable programmers. If there really was a market shortage, companies would not interview like this.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
The HR folks do not care, it's not their metric to bother about.
But the average HR rep doesn't determine the technical questions! The culpability falls squarely on the engineers who devise these tests.
This is honestly something I've been trying to discuss with peers recently, and it's interesting the push back you get when you simply bring up the concept of "well, it obviously isn't C suite or HR that is advocating for the algorithmic leetcode test, they couldn't begin to understand that shit, it's 100% just other engineers setting up gatekeeping scenarios."