3 ms·
The only way I would consider paying for a course like this is if, upon successfully completing it, I would not have to do the technical portion of the intervie
by chooseaname 8y ago
The only way I would consider paying for a course like this is if, upon successfully completing it, I would not have to do the technical portion of the interview at companies I applied to. They would accept this cert and just do the soft skills interview.
- Apocryphon 8y agoSounds like a neat segment for Triplebyte to move to- or for a competitor to capitalize upon.
- alboy 8y agoOne could argue that CS undergraduate degrees are perfectly suited for this purpose. FAANG & Co don't seem to care for that. You've successfully passed a few dozen exams at MIT or Stanford? Well, let's make the reasonable assumption that you have no clue about algorithms and data structures and start with our third whiteboarding session, that should be a way better proxy for your knowledge.
- erik_seaberg 8y agoThose incentives are misaligned. Not every law school grad can pass the bar.
- alboy 8y agoThey may very well be, but is the quality of signal truly worse than that which an interviewer can extract from a few hours of your writing code on the board?
- erik_seaberg 8y agoThere are people with degrees who can't code. I'd prefer we don't hire them, so we ask for coding.
- reificator 8y agoThat's called college, and experience has shown that the people who have the certificate aren't guaranteed to know how to write a fizzbuzz.
- fossuser 8y agoI think that’ll never happen because the incentives of the cert granting institution and the company hiring will never be aligned (or aligned enough to matter).