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Indeed. Being an MIT dad, I know a few course 6 undergrads. Bright kids get social axiety, too. And can brain-freeze at inappropriate times. And may be better i
by dbcurtis 9y ago
Indeed. Being an MIT dad, I know a few course 6 undergrads. Bright kids get social axiety, too. And can brain-freeze at inappropriate times. And may be better in a quiet, thoughtful problem-solving mode than the kind of TV quiz show that modern interviewing has become.
I just don't get the modern interview process. Why are we looking for lint in human form? I'd rather see someone sketch some psuedo-code for an interesting problem with several acceptable solutions.
I think I learn more by asking a fuzzy, underspecified problem question and seeing what clarifying questions I get back. I want to know if the person can wring a spec out of a customer - coding it up with all the semicolons in the right place is the easy part.
- wiz21c 9y agoIn antoher comment on this discussion : >> Most people I knew at MIT had a full time offer they were happy with from their Junior year internship by their senior year. This leads me to think that top-universities student are already "chosen/watched" by companies before the recruitment phase so both companies and student are much more confident they can work together. So basically, top companies just recruit people the best way : by looking at students while they are still student. Which is fine, except the top universities are, I guess, the most expensive ones. But if that is true too, then that's another bias : companies have rich employees, so they hire people with the same set of personal values...