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What do you want for lunch? Interviews are effectively worthless for engineers. Figuring out where to eat isn’t.
by kasey_junk 8y ago
What do you want for lunch?
Interviews are effectively worthless for engineers. Figuring out where to eat isn’t.
- quickthrower2 8y ago??? so grab some peeps from the street and make them senior engineers?
- dagw 8y agoWhat? The implication of interviews are worthless for finding the best senior engineers is not to hire random people off the street. It's to hire people based on their previous work, reputation and recommendations.
- tptacek 8y agoAaaah no, no no no. Hiring based on reputation and recommendations is also terrible, and not just because it's tautological; it also doesn't work. The industry is full of people with sterling reputations gradually failing upwards.
- joezydeco 8y agoI used to joke that a candidate should drive the group to lunch. There was a correlation between someone’s coding style and the way they drove a car in heavy traffic with others in the car. Totally unreasonable and probably illegal, but still something that crosses my mind in interviews.