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I wish companies would figure out a way to have their best engineers do blind-shopper-style interviews where they regularly see if their best engineers would be
by zaidf 8y ago
I wish companies would figure out a way to have their best engineers do blind-shopper-style interviews where they regularly see if their best engineers would be able to make it through their current interview process. This can be tricky to implement but if done right, would provide lots of insight into the types of candidates their interview process is geared to pass.
I asked a friend who worked for years at a large public company if he would have passed the company's interview process at the time that he left. His answer: "most certainly not!". I think his answer is astonishing. Here is a guy who is considered a top notch engineer at his company, assigned to help the company screen for similar top notch engineers and yet, the established process would specifically fail a good percentage of high-quality engineers of the type that already work at the company.
- sudosteph 8y agoThat reminds me. At Amazon there was a concept called "raising the bar" that was applied during interviews and promotions. The idea was that you should only hire or promote people with the capacity to do the job better than 50% of the people already doing it. I often wondered how sustainable that was. Will be interesting to see if they keep that strategy long-term.
- stevenwoo 8y agoCombine that with stack ranking for evaluations and firing the bottom 10%, though I think they quit doing that recently.