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Interviewing.io is a startup that does some research into candidate evaluation. To their credit, they have even posted research with negative results. http://b
by neilk 7y ago
Interviewing.io is a startup that does some research into candidate evaluation. To their credit, they have even posted research with negative results.
http://blog.interviewing.io/posts/ http://blog.interviewing.io/posts/
- jppope 7y ago^^ this. Aline learner runs a solid content strategy over there focusing on data journalism.
- aerovistae 7y agoLerner
- throwayEngineer 7y agoI think reading 10-20 ancedotes is far more useful than an academic paper. After meeting my PhD professor. I stopped trusting academia for truth.
- tasubotadas 7y agoAcademia's disconnect with practical things is amazing.
- 1337biz 7y agoPerfect example of a field were the quantification of performance killed all good intentions.
- throwayEngineer 7y agoThe dishonesty to "prove" something was shocking. Now I skip the abstract and go straight to Data.
- ghaff 7y agoI spent some time digging through academic research last year for a chapter of a book I was writing. There was some interesting work both relating directly to software development and collaboration and other topics more broadly. There was also a lot of unreadable crap that was pretty disconnected from the real world.
- kayoone 7y agoI had the opportunity to be in a small interviewing workshop with Aline, she really knows what shes doing and I believe the tech interviewing world would be a better place if more companies adjusted their process based on Alines/Interviewing.ios insights.
- pmiller2 7y agoI don’t really see what’s special about their process other than the resume-blindness aspect. That’s been validated elsewhere by Triplebyte. Other than that one aspect, the process is exactly like your standard technical phone screen, except that you have to do a really easy Hackerrank problem to get invited to the platform. If I am wrong here, someone please correct me.
- leeny 7y agoHey, Aline here. Unlike Triplebyte, we offer people free, anonymous mock interviews with engineers from companies like Google, Facebook, etc. Basically, you get on the platform, practice, and then if you do well in practice (again real interviews not coding challenges), you can book real interviews top companies. Those interviews are also anonymous, which means that if you do poorly, you don't have to unmask.
- pmiller2 7y agoWell, I disagree with your use of the word “anonymous.” Gender, national origin, and ethnicity are frequently easy to guess (at least at the level of “is not a white, American-born male”) via voice. I know you tried voice masking and it didn’t help equalize the results wrt gender, and I don’t have a better suggestion, so I’m not blaming the process, for not attempting to remove bias. This criticism applies to both the mock interviews and the real interviews. Bias creeps in in other ways, too. I have done both on interviewing.io as a candidate. You probably remember how Instacart has interviews on your platform under the terms that it was just an informational chat, and anyone who met the criteria to interview would then get a real technical interview. I did the informational chat and was then not interviewed after deanonymizing. And, BTW, after I emailed support I never got my technical interview, nor was I given any sort of resolution or information about what happened. It’s a good experiment, but it falls short of what I’d call “anonymous” and doesn’t really remove very much bias in the overall process.
- wodenokoto 7y agoHas anyone here done interviews with interviewing.io? How was it, did it lead to a job?
- risforrob 7y agoYes and Yes. Interviewing.io was great for kicking some rust of the ol' interviewing tires and also led to an offer that I accepted. I have a longer reply to a different HN thread with more detail about my experiences here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11679844 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11679844