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Google style interviews don't screen for the best engineers, but they screen strongly for subservience. The fact that a candidate has to go out of their way to
by JDiculous 10y ago
Google style interviews don't screen for the best engineers, but they screen strongly for subservience. The fact that a candidate has to go out of their way to prepare for these interviews indicates that the candidate is likely willing to jump through whatever hoops they're told to jump through.
It's similar to how investment banking jobs place such a high premium on Ivy league degrees with high GPAs despite the actual job itself being so simple a high school student could do it. Someone who's willing to jump through all those hoops to get into a top school and graduate with a high GPA has a strong track record of following orders and is less likely to complain about 100 hours workweeks.
- NTDF9 10y ago>> Google style interviews don't screen for the best engineers, but they screen strongly for subservience. The fact that a candidate has to go out of their way to prepare for these interviews indicates that the candidate is likely willing to jump through whatever hoops they're told to jump through. Try saying this obvious observation to some Google engineers in real life. I've never seen such butthurt adult-kids!
- eli_gottlieb 10y agoI mean, that's all true, but what matters is whether you have some personal goal which requires you to go through time at Google.