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Cheating in engineering is pointless. At every tech company I’ve interviewed at (on either side of the table) as soon as you get into the interview what school
by landryraccoon 7y ago
Cheating in engineering is pointless. At every tech company I’ve interviewed at (on either side of the table) as soon as you get into the interview what school you went to and what grades you got don’t matter. If you can’t whiteboard some technical problems you aren’t getting in.
- MegaButts 7y agoI know people that cheated, were utterly incompetent, and got prestigious jobs at tech firms.
- landryraccoon 7y agoAs engineers? Like, actual individual contributions and not managers? Doing what?
- MegaButts 7y agoYes, as engineers.
- landryraccoon 7y agoThat company sucks then. It might be hard to measure between competent engineers but bad engineers stick out like a sore thumb. If that keeps happening it means the entire engineering department sucks at those companies.
- MegaButts 7y agoWhen I say prestigious jobs, I don't mean random companies you've never heard of - these include companies well known for their engineering excellence. I don't know how their careers advanced, so maybe they quickly found themselves looking for work elsewhere. No hiring process is perfect. We've all had to deal with less-than-excellent coworkers.
- TrackerFF 7y agoThe only engineering firms I've interviewed for which had rigorous technical interviews, were consulting firms. Most other firms were almost exclusively focused on soft-skills and personality, and then some pretty softball technical questions.