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The problem with his interviews is that it's even more easily gamed. It doesn't really take a genius to go through their employment history and memorize blurbs
by lambdabit 10y ago
The problem with his interviews is that it's even more easily gamed. It doesn't really take a genius to go through their employment history and memorize blurbs that show learning technologies, applying it successfully while being humble and nice for one day.
- IndianAstronaut 10y ago>while being humble and nice for one day Employers need to screen for this more. So many horrible people making it into workplaces and ruining work cultures.
- vonmoltke 10y agoIf an interview like that can be gamed by "memorizing blurbs" then it wasn't done correctly. A properly conducted interview will see the interviewer tugging at threads to go deeper. At some point they will crack because memorization won't be enough. Unless of course they are anpathological liar, but those are rare enough that I would ignore the posssibility at the interview stage.
- lambdabit 10y agoYou're right, I exaggerated but I don't think this is a hard game. People spend several months right now on studying interviews. The topics are wide and scope enormous, hence so many complaints; some companies test you on languages, others on algorithms, data structures, dynamic programming, bit manipulations, SQL queries, scalability, unix internals, I could go on and on. On the other hand, there's only so many paths these past history conversations can go, and you know where they can poke at.