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But what's the incentive for a large number of Google engineers to surreptitiously ask questions of a style that's explicitly banned? I think there is incentiv
by CamouflagedKiwi 8y ago
But what's the incentive for a large number of Google engineers to surreptitiously ask questions of a style that's explicitly banned?
I think there is incentive for failed interviewees to cook up stories - or at least to tell something very one-sided - because none of us like to believe we failed at something and feel better if we persuade ourselves it was stacked against us.
- mavelikara 8y ago> But what's the incentive for a large number of Google engineers to surreptitiously ask questions of a style that's explicitly banned? An incentive to maximize the value of their job position and already acquired leetcoding skills?
- joshuamorton 8y agoI don't follow how that would do that. And in fact there's no need for explicit animosity by the failed interviewee. Someone who misunderstands a question badly enough to call it a brainteaser when it isn't is also likely to have performed badly on it.
- hoaw 8y agoThe most persistent critique I have heard about Google is that the experience can be very uneven in everything from recruitment and workload to even salary for the same job. Even if Google entirely stopped with brain teasers, people certainly seemed to have expected them on account of unpredictability up until a few years ago.
- dnr 8y agoThe incentive is just not having to come up with and calibrate new questions. It takes a lot of effort to do that, and if you've been asking a "banned" question for a while and are comfortable with it, it's easy to just keep using it until someone explicitly tells you not to (reverse feedback from hiring committee to interviewer wasn't a thing for a while). Most engineers don't really enjoy interviewing and want to put minimal effort into it.