One Hour Hire - Hacking Engineer Interviews
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One Hour Hire - Hacking Engineer Interviews
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Re: One Hour Hire - Hacking Engineer Interviews
#2Yet another company that pretends to believe the "1 in 100" canard:
If we assume that only 1 in 100 qualified engineers meets our bar ..
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#3 "unable to implement a simple linked list"
"Vet the technical competency of full stack rails engineers..."3 hrs of backend/algo testing? rolleyes
4 hrs of frontend? rolleyes
I hope they enjoyed tooting their own horn, yet another place I know to avoid bothering to interview at.
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#4Algorithms are easy, the solutions are all online. Cleaning up code is hard. Give the candidate a project with some failing tests and messed up code. Tell them to clean it up and add a feature or two. Congrats, you just tested someone on what they will actually be doing in their day job.
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#5 "...We've had to pass on some amazing engineers just because they did not have the rails web, front or back end experience. "
Why would anyone want to work with amazing engineers?
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#6Sorry, but they're crazy if they think halfway decent engineers are going to spend 7.5 hours of their time doing a coding quiz before they even have a personal interview with them.
They seem to be forgetting that potential engineers are interviewing them just as much as they're interviewing the engineers -- and such a crazy up-front time commitment is a sure way to weed out the engineers who have better things to do with their time.
This may be scalable for the company, but it certainly isn't scalable for engineers looking for jobs at multiple companies.
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#7Maybe it works for them, but I don't find any motivation to work on test project that exist only for their own sake. I mean, if the test project is actually a part of the real project that I would be working, then that's okay. But to build something with made up requirements puts me off.
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#8Am I missing something here? The title says 1 hour hire but the problem listed says 7.5 (rails test: 0.5, backend: 3, frontend: 4). That seems anything but efficient and somewhat strange.
Why not provide the potential candidate with some actual work that you need done?
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#9Wow, what a douchebaggy post. I had good impression of Instacart as a product, but clearly Instacart as a company doesn't deserve that level of respect. They've completely failed to assess their potential hires on what actually matters.
Re: One Hour Hire - Hacking Engineer Interviews
#10Am I missing something here? The title says 1 hour hire but the problem listed says 7.5 (rails test: 0.5, backend: 3, frontend: 4). That seems anything but efficient and somewhat strange. Why not provide the potential candidate with some actual work that you need done?
7.5 hours of candidate time, one hour of the hiring engineer time.