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Sweet that some one is trying new things with ideas. But Oh boy, Life does not revolve around tech interviews. Make peace with it. An old school psychologist
by yanilkr 10y ago
Sweet that some one is trying new things with ideas.
But Oh boy, Life does not revolve around tech interviews. Make peace with it. An old school psychologist would observe us and say that the people obsessed with tech interviews faced an emotional toll of rejection during early career and are trying to get over it.
Google, Facebook and other companies are like parents of the tech kids and the kids are seeking some kind of approval or validation from them via passing their technical interviews. You are not cool enough if you don't crack our interview.
Its possible we are doing something very wrong here.
- kylestlb 10y agoMaybe interviewing is over-important because of the frequency in which tech workers/engineers change jobs.
- titanomachy 10y agoMaybe un(der)employed programmers, who are naturally more concerned about interviewing, have extra free time and are thus over-represented on hacker news.
- prodigal_erik 10y agoEven when I'm not the candidate, I'm asked to conduct a hell of a lot of interviews at work, and it's a huge time sink when the signal/noise is poor.
- sluggg 10y agoyes, I believe you are completely correct. It also seems like a common way for the engineering community as a whole to gain insight into a company's culture. It seems to me that these two ideas go hand in hand in a encouraging our fetishization of the tech interview
- Jemmeh 10y agoAnd tied into this, job changes are frequently said to be one of the best ways to get a raise.