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Do you truly believe that all those top tech companies have decided on this process to boost the egos of the interviewers? Are you saying this because you have
by gaylemcd 9y ago
Do you truly believe that all those top tech companies have decided on this process to boost the egos of the interviewers? Are you saying this because you have actual evidence? Have you talked to interviewers who admitted this was their personal motivation?
I assure you that the purpose of these questions is to identify good engineers. You might think it fails to do so, but that is the purpose.
- kafkaesq 9y agoAre you saying this because you have actual evidence? The place where evidence is needed is in support of the hypothesis that these questions actually work (in favor of achieving their stated ends). That is, the question to ask should be: "Do any of these companies asking these questions have actual evidence that they actually work?" I grant that many people who ask (overdrawn, larger-than-life) questions like these probably believe that they help identify good engineers. Whether these questions actually achieve that goal is an entirely different matter.