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> Interviews suck for both parties, a world without interviews would be a better world. Actually, I rather like interviews. They typically pose some fun progra
by morgante 9y ago
> Interviews suck for both parties, a world without interviews would be a better world.
Actually, I rather like interviews. They typically pose some fun programming problems and I have a chance to talk about a lot of the cool work I've done over the years.
Honestly, I do think the interviewing process is very risky from a company perspective (it's insane to me that companies will invest tens of thousands of dollars into someone based on essentially an afternoon of conversations), but it's perfectly great for some candidates.
- XCSme 9y agoI didn't say I didn't enjoy the interviews, I loved most of them where the interviewer was actually involved. That being said, that's my point with interviews, if you don't trust something that the interviewer wrote on his CV (right 20 years experience and a history of successful products) then how can you decide to hire him or not after only a few hours of talking to him? You could have a bad day, he could have a bad day, it might happen that he knows exactly the question he has been asked or that he knows everything else EXCEPT that question. Usually it takes months of working next to someone to know how good he really is.