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What different metric do you think would work better? Github? I have seen people get job offers by taking someone else's project, editing commit history to make
by enitihas 7y ago
What different metric do you think would work better? Github? I have seen people get job offers by taking someone else's project, editing commit history to make themselves the author, and then push it to GitHub and talk about that project in their interview. Sure, sometimes on drilling deep enough you would know people are faking it, but a lot of time people would pass through.
I just mean to say that all hiring criterion have tradeoffs, and none is strictly better than the others.
- pm90 7y agoNope, don’t give me the “oh there is no better way so let’s continue using our shitty way” excuse. Citing another poor way of hiring does not make the existing one better. And I don’t know what a new process should be. Google has the data from literally millions of applications and has decided to just ignore them or not to try different ways of hiring? Give me a break.
- enitihas 7y agoOr maybe "the data from literally millions of applications" has made Google realize that their current way is the best among all the others possible? Who knows.
- pishpash 7y agoOr one day when Google isn't doing well there is a sudden phase transition to say the current way is the worst among all the possible. We assume somebody competent is looking at this, but for all we know they are using the same dumb myopic evaluation as they use for promotions. I mean the same people came up with both.
- scarface74 7y agoHow have Microsoft, Apple, and Amazon managed to diversify?
- enitihas 7y agoAt least Microsoft and Amazon have the same interview style as google. The questions might not be as hard, but the interview style is same. All sorts of DS and algos. Infact, one of my friends once went to a microsoft interview, where even the interviewer had a leetcode like website open on his browser and asking questions from there directly.
- pishpash 7y agoEverybody follows the reputational leader. You can say Google ruined tech interviews.
- johan_larson 7y agoGoogle didn't invent whiteboard interviews. Microsoft was doing it way back in the early nineties.
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