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While I don't know whether this has been studied, I would expect the interview results to correlate well with years of experience for example. I think what the
by lolc 9y ago
While I don't know whether this has been studied, I would expect the interview results to correlate well with years of experience for example.
I think what these interviews test best is your ability to interact with your peers. Candidates who interface badly with other people would have trouble getting a good score. So yes some brilliant people will bomb those interviews. And some talkers will manage to pass one interviewer.
In total I would expect those interviews to indicate a minimum of professional knowledge in combination with good communication skills. That is valuable data without it being objective in an absolute sense.
- sulam 9y agoI'm not convinced they correlate with years of experience. In fact they may well inversely correlate. I give a relaxed algorithm design screen to candidates (of which roughly 70% pass -- I'm a soft touch) that include a problem that is mildly academic in nature. New grads are the ones that tell me they already know it and I have to move on to the next problem (which, amusingly, they never have experience with). Experience people often have a vague recollection of what it does, but not enough of a recollection to prevent me from learning something from the discussion about how to get it done.