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Where have you seen that? The most I've been given is a general interview prep guide about how to prepare for an on-site.
by chris11 7y ago
Where 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?