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'Something, something, hiring feels like a referendum on whether candidate is good enough to join a fancy club... ...FAANG have a straightforward entrance exam.
by conjectures 7y ago
'Something, something, hiring feels like a referendum on whether candidate is good enough to join a fancy club...
...FAANG have a straightforward entrance exam...
...on the other hand Honeycomb's club is smaller and more exclusive.'
Wait, what's the point here?
- Juliate 7y agoStraightforward? :D
- crsv 7y agoEgo
- astura 7y agoSelf promotion. Plus where else would you show off your collection of pictures you have of yourself eating ice cream?
- asdfman123 7y agoI don't have any qualms with this article. To be fair, like 90% of tech articles I read are just self-promotion. Someone comes up with a half-good idea that works in their company (at least for now) and they're like "THE ASFMAN123 METHOD OF CHANGING EVERYTHING" and "THE ONE RULE OF BUSINESS THAT YOU CAN BOIL EVERYTHING DOWN TO" without accounting for individual variation. I read an article by a Netflix hirer who basically bragged about how arbitrary and capricious their hiring was. "I noticed most of our staff were musicians, so I made sure to hire plenty of those, too, and they did great." People in my cubicle block have names with N in them, too, and we seem pretty good too. Honestly, it sounds cynical but I think that's the primary reason people write these articles, to appear to be thought leaders when people search for their names. But good on them, I suppose. It is useful to share ideas, and eventually the good ones will percolate up to the top (hopefully).
- TeMPOraL 7y ago> To be fair, like 90% of tech articles I read are just self-promotion. You need to filter more :). Good technical articles don't read like self-promotion, but more like someone discovering an idea and playing with it, or someone explaining an idea in detail, describing relevant trade-offs.
- devit 7y agoThey are saying that FAANG can hire just on generic skill because they are large and can probably find some way to use anyone smart and can afford wasting money on unproductive employees, while they (and startups in general) need people to fill specific needs so they select for the specific need instead of generic skills and they don't have money to waste so they try harder to not make mistakes.
- hyperpape 7y agoGenerally agree with your characterization. IMHO, It's not even about absorbing unproductive employees, just that there are arguably ways arguably harder to make an employee productive in a startup environment.
- ghaff 7y agoYep. You could replace FAANG with, say, a large aerospace company. If someone graduated from a good school with an appropriate degree and (possibly) has some relevant work experience, they'll [ADDED: most likely] be fine. Or at least fine enough. Way back when I even got an offer from one such on the basis of a resume and generic cover letter. No phone screen. They didn't even care if I came in for an on-site interview or not. Smaller organizations can't afford to just play a numbers game and bank on hires being good enough to fit in somewhere.
- conjectures 7y agoSure, but why start off by trying to seem nice? Can only assume they've been wasting time interviewing people likely to be fooled by that level of bs. Or is it that they don't have a clear view of what level bs is required to fool people? Either way it shows a reliance on bs and some flavour of incompetence.