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> ... technical interviews ... Technical interviews are manufactured tests that can be easily gamed. The idea that any valuable insight can be drawn from them
by dvt 7y ago
> ... technical interviews ...
Technical interviews are manufactured tests that can be easily gamed. The idea that any valuable insight can be drawn from them is naïve at best. Further, the post was specifically about innovation -- given this constraint, technical interviews are notoriously bad at separating the wheat from the chaff (e.g. product questions are non-existent in technical interviews).
"Fundamentals" can mean different things to different people, but let's not pretend technical interviews are a reliable signal.
- yomly 7y agoYou don't know anything about the parent's process so your assumptions are pretty wild The parent's anecdotal experience is still a valuable datapoint in the face of two baseless stereotypes: 1. Chinese educated people lack fundamentals and are ill equipped for innovation 2. Technical interviews are at best a naive mechanism for evaluating candidates
- dvt 7y agoWhich of my points do you think are in contention? That technical interviews can be gamed? That product questions aren't asked? Or that technical interviews produce bad signals? Because I have plenty of evidence for all of the above, and the fact that technical hiring is profoundly broken is discussed ad nauseam on HN.
- mdorazio 7y agoYou didn't actually offer a refutation of anything the parent comment said.