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The guys behind Hacker-rank tried something similar in India. Students would pay to practise interviews with someone from the company they were applying to. The
by Arkdy 8y ago
The guys behind Hacker-rank tried something similar in India. Students would pay to practise interviews with someone from the company they were applying to. Their challenge was that the difference between what they had to pay an Amazon/Google engineer for their time and what a student could afford was too small to be profitable.
They ended up pivoting to giving the students free access to coding challenges, and changing _the companies_ for a platform to conduct their technical interviews.
[1] https://m.soundcloud.com/ycombinator/66-breaking-down-hackerranks https://m.soundcloud.com/ycombinator/66-breaking-down-hacker...
- zoidzoid 8y agoInterviewing.io already does this and although you are paired with random people it works very well to practice
- dougmwne 8y agoI can't tell if it's a recruiting agency disguised as a service or really for the benefit of job seekers. They advertise that 60% of their candidates make it to an on-site. Either way though, very cool and exactly what I was thinking, so thanks for sharing.