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This sounds reasonable enough, but on the other side, so is the observation that often people who get into and get through top 10 schools are actually ones that
by stmw 9y ago
This sounds reasonable enough, but on the other side, so is the observation that often people who get into and get through top 10 schools are actually ones that did not work hard.
The point of using interviewing.io online technical interview as the first step of the process is that it makes your "I'd be happy to give everyone a shot" take far less time than alternatives. Still can't get unlimited time or perfect fairness, but it's better.
- opportune 9y agoI went to a "top 10 school." I'd say that only maybe 20% of the students (in CS) were people that I would want to hire if I were running a company. A lot of top school students get accepted because a) mom and dad are rich, sent kid to feeder high school, pushed kid to do ECs/do tutoring/get help with essays b) they fit into some admissions "bucket" like {has inspirational story} or {huge volunteering effort} or {also amazing artist}. The worst students were always the ones that went to feeder schools and had wealthy parents, which are incidentally the majority of students at top schools
- stmw 9y agoExactly. Those a great examples, and you could add the ones of students who are not interested in being engineers. Of course, technical interviews and really any other recruiting process, are not perfect, but it gets one closer.
- Consultant32452 9y agoI wonder if your experience taints your opinion here. I don't know because I barely went to a state college for a minute before I got the job I wanted and dropped out. It's possible if you spent the same time at an average university first you might find 50 or 80% of the "top 10" students to be worth hiring.