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The new trend in SF/bay area seems to be companies you’re applying to preparing you _specifically_ for the questions they’ll ask. People realized no one memori
by herval 7y ago
The new trend in SF/bay area seems to be companies you’re applying to preparing you _specifically_ for the questions they’ll ask. People realized no one memorizes one specific search algorithm or puzzle, so they now tell you, before the interview, that you’ll be asked problems A, B and C.
Not “algorithm problems” or “search” - “we’ll ask you to revert a doubly linked list”.
It’s bizarre.
- chris11 7y agoWhere have you seen that? The most I've been given is a general interview prep guide about how to prepare for an on-site.
- herval 7y ago2 “FAANG” companies and another one of the top big tech ones. One had a recruiter calling and literally listing all the questions they “could ask”, coding, architecture and all. They asked all of them.
- mgkimsal 7y agoI don't think it's the companies themselves as much as the recruiters. I've had recruiters pump me for info on the specifics of the question asked, and I obliged. I was younger and naive, and... didn't understand what they were doing. Not until later, when the reverse happened to me - I was given "potential" questions to prep for (which... I already knew answers to because it was my regular day job for) that I understood why I'd been asked about that stuff before.
- paxys 7y agoYou are implying that FAANG recruiters are doing this without the knowledge or consent of the hiring team, which is ridiculous.
- scarface74 7y agoIf recruiters are incentivized by a metric of how many candidates get through the process, why wouldn’t they do that without the consent of the hiring team? External recruiters do that all of the time. I worked with the same recruiter when I was trying to get a job and when I was hiring through him. I knew he prepped candidates so I had to have a different set of interview questions and different coding interview tests (with an IDE on a computer). I know of one company where the hiring manager had all of the candidates do a merge sort on the board. He used the same interview question for years. All of the recruiters knew what to prep their candidates for.
- fuqmachine 7y agoCouldn't that have been a coincidence? or good research by the specific recruiter? or a recruiter that is cheating at his/her job?