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Wow. Is it just me or does that sound like a downright horrifying company to deal with as a candidate? At our company, we try to painstakingly craft our recrui

Wow. Is it just me or does that sound like a downright horrifying company to deal with as a candidate? At our company, we try to painstakingly craft our recruiting experience to make sure each candidate we interview has a good experience and ends up with a positive impression of our company regardless of whether or not we end up sending them an offer. At the end of the day, we're all human beings, each with something unique to bring to the table, even if that something might not be what we're looking for for a particular role at the moment. Maybe past some scale we'll have to start changing our approach and start reducing candidates down to data points and "run experiments" on them like lab rats, like Google, et all, and these guys here seem to be so proud of themselves for doing, but I'd sooner quit than to stay a part of a company that does that.

kev009 9y ago
For giggles (I work on OS kernels and high performance TCP, there's no way this kind of meatgrinder would ever place me correctly) I did the online quiz thing and got to the interview piece just to see why this was generating buzz. The quiz was easy and when I saw the interview prep I was disgusted. It's gamified hiring practice done in an outsourced fashion.. the kind where you are supposed to read a book that tells you what kind of questions a hiring party will ask you. I guess if you are a lousy engineering manager and want to offload and emulate the hiring process of something like Google this is up your alley. If you want some relatively fungible developers that can work on CRUD applications it may be fine but I don't think that's hard to hire for in any case. Engineering managers MUST do recruiting - never let HR take this from you. HR can do clerical work, but they should have little role in search and outreach. I'd instead recommend finding new talent at local universities, mid level talent give recruiter like bonuses for employee referrals and poach from competitors, and extraordinary talent go look at commit logs of the open source software you use and hire people from that list. Easy, cheap, and effective.
7h3kk1d 9y ago
I'd rather find a better long term fit quicker than have a pleasant process when looking.
- fro0116 9y ago
  I mean sure, so would I if I had to choose between the two, but that's a false dilemma. And for me at least, a company that doesn't treat their candidates with kindness and respect in the hiring process likely wouldn't be a long term fit for me anyways.

kev009 9y ago

For giggles (I work on OS kernels and high performance TCP, there's no way this kind of meatgrinder would ever place me correctly) I did the online quiz thing and got to the interview piece just to see why this was generating buzz. The quiz was easy and when I saw the interview prep I was disgusted. It's gamified hiring practice done in an outsourced fashion.. the kind where you are supposed to read a book that tells you what kind of questions a hiring party will ask you. I guess if you are a lousy engineering manager and want to offload and emulate the hiring process of something like Google this is up your alley. If you want some relatively fungible developers that can work on CRUD applications it may be fine but I don't think that's hard to hire for in any case. Engineering managers MUST do recruiting - never let HR take this from you. HR can do clerical work, but they should have little role in search and outreach. I'd instead recommend finding new talent at local universities, mid level talent give recruiter like bonuses for employee referrals and poach from competitors, and extraordinary talent go look at commit logs of the open source software you use and hire people from that list. Easy, cheap, and effective.

7h3kk1d 9y ago

I'd rather find a better long term fit quicker than have a pleasant process when looking.

fro0116 9y ago
I mean sure, so would I if I had to choose between the two, but that's a false dilemma. And for me at least, a company that doesn't treat their candidates with kindness and respect in the hiring process likely wouldn't be a long term fit for me anyways.