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This is a great idea. I've been in many interviews where I thought I did pretty well only to be told, "oh, this is just the first of many interviews". I wouldn'
by gaza3g 10y ago
This is a great idea. I've been in many interviews where I thought I did pretty well only to be told, "oh, this is just the first of many interviews". I wouldn't have applied if I had known since every onsite interview requires me to at least take half a day off from work. That is time that can be used for something else.
But I do have to mention that with the Big4, they will let you know in detail about the whole process during the phone interview so that's cool by me.
- peteretep 10y agoWho constitutes the big 4? Facebook, Google, ...?
- _asummers 10y agoFacebook, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, I think is the current list.
- melvinmt 10y agoApple not big enough?
- akjetma 10y agoMaybe it's because they aren't as focused on software as the others
- jeremyjh 10y agoYes but at least they are a tech company. Facebook has done some cool stuff in the back-end and released some great open source, but they are basically a single-product company, and its a consumer facing website that sells advertising. Assuming that everyone reading HN would rank them above Apple tells you quite a lot, really.
- santaclaus 10y agoI've heard from various friends at Apple that their interviews are way less structured than Google or Facebook or Microsoft's. For similar software positions, one friend was seriously grilled on implementation details of WebKit internals, while the other said he just shot some high level shit about music production software for a coupe of hours. Similar resumes, similar backgrounds, both got gigs but I was kind of surprised at how different their experiences were.
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- AndrewKemendo 10y agoProbably Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft
- pyb 10y agoThere is not a 'big 4' in tech.
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- cripesmarcy 10y agoI agree, it's pretty frustrating when that happens. Especially when you take time to travel for the interview only to find out that it is the "first of many."
- jackweirdy 10y agoDo you mean the Big 4 tech or just the Big Four? (which usually implies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four_accounting_firms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Four_accounting_firms)