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The HR folks do not care, it's not their metric to bother about.

• Apocryphon 7y ago
  But the average HR rep doesn't determine the technical questions! The culpability falls squarely on the engineers who devise these tests.
  • Benjammer 7y ago
    This is honestly something I've been trying to discuss with peers recently, and it's interesting the push back you get when you simply bring up the concept of "well, it obviously isn't C suite or HR that is advocating for the algorithmic leetcode test, they couldn't begin to understand that shit, it's 100% just other engineers setting up gatekeeping scenarios."
  • SpicyLemonZest 7y ago
    Is that true? I suppose the truly average HR rep can’t be, but I’ve never been given the freedom as an engineer to not ask a silly algorithm question. At most I get to decide which one I think is least silly. Maybe there are engineers somewhere who think the questions are great and high signal, but I’ve never met any.
  • ticmasta 7y ago
    Well our Dev test was developed by the Senior VP and then tested on our developers; only 1 who aced it. Don't blame me and other workin' stiffs for that...
    • Apocryphon 7y ago
      That's fair, but I bet the SVP was head of engineering, and both of people ops.