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> How do we know that? As the sibling comment mentions, companies are able to build large scale systems by engineers who got in through these kind of interview
by vthallam 7y ago
> How do we know that?
As the sibling comment mentions, companies are able to build large scale systems by engineers who got in through these kind of interviews. I am not saying this is the right way or wrong way, but it definitely works.
Of course when you do this, you miss out on some amazing candidates, but the big companies which started this can afford to do that because of the insane num of applications they get.
- Dangeranger 7y agoA larger problem is the cargo-culting of whiteboard interview techniques by smaller companies who do not get the volume of applicants that FAANG do, get believe they will succeed anyway.
- EpicEng 7y agoSome are. Some fail to even pull of moderately difficult projects. I didn't mean to say that interviewing is literally a coin flip, but I can dig a trench with a pickaxe. Doesn't mean it's a good way to do it.