in Gayle Laackman's "Cracking the coding interview": > Amazon’s “bar raiser” interviewer is charged with keeping the interview bar high. They at- tend special

in Gayle Laackman's "Cracking the coding interview": > Amazon’s “bar raiser” interviewer is charged with keeping the interview bar high. They at- tend special training and will interview candidates outside their group in order to balance out the group itself. If one interview seems significantly harder and different, that’s most like- ly the bar raiser. This person has both significant experience with interviews and veto power in the hiring decision. You will meet with your recruiter at the end of the day. I can confirm that for me, the interview was 4*45 minute whiteboard coding sessions. In two of the interviews it was 2-on-one. Unlike Gayle's description however, I received no debrief or description of what aspect of the 4+ hour ordeal I was rejected on. (Not to mention the night before where there was a 5 hour social/mixer). It seems that since her writing, they've adopted a no-feedback policy. So all in, I spent a day "investing the effort in their team's interviewing techniques" but got nothing but a black hole in return and down a day's vacation. I've got a lot of sympathy for the person who says "this interview process is a lot of work" and who, after 17 years coding in production, decides they don't have time to invest in helping a room full of 20 somethings improve their interview skills. It probably sounds a lot more bitter than I mean it to. I've looked for work 3 times since '98 and found it pretty quickly each time. (One of those times was within a day of starting to look) I do worry about ageism going forward. Fortunately my current place has a lot of those gandalf-looking fellas. I love working with they grey-beards of programming. In fairness, I think my experience with Facebook's interview process was worse.