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> I've always felt that if I can't get through an interview with a little prep and my existing skills, I don't belong. I have this feeling too, but I am not su
by outworlder 10y ago
> I've always felt that if I can't get through an interview with a little prep and my existing skills, I don't belong.
I have this feeling too, but I am not sure if it is warranted.
Let's do a thought experiment: grab an engineer at random, don't tell the interviewers that they are already a colleague, and subject to the same interview process as everyone else. Now, is this engineer going to pass the interview? Maybe, but I would not be surprised if most failed.
It's very rare that the interview process will actually test anything that's used on the job.
- jghn 10y agoWe've talked about doing that. My fear was always that I'd fail and they'd reconsider my own employment :)
- outworlder 10y agoThe idea was to reconsider the interview process. But, in the corporate world, you never know.
- khedoros 10y agoI know that Google's recruiters have told me that they often end up hiring candidates on their second or third interview attempts; even at a company with a fairly standardized interview format, they get a ton of what they consider "false negatives". It seems like a related phenomenon.
- dgemm 10y agoI believe that's intentional - they prefer false negatives over false positives.
- ne0n 10y agoMost will fail. Amazon actually has an internal hiring standard that the candidate should be better than 50% of their peer employees in the position they're interviewing for. This goals helps Amazon strive to always hire more talented employees..
- eropple 10y ago> Maybe, but I would not be surprised if most failed. I used to work at a place where this was an actual goal: "we should always be raising the bar." Needless to say, that particular unicorn ended up shedding people pretty quick.