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I never claimed to work at a FAANG company, but I must have hit a nerve if people are going through the effort of looking at my LinkedIn profile and looking at

by parsimo2010 7y ago

I never claimed to work at a FAANG company, but I must have hit a nerve if people are going through the effort of looking at my LinkedIn profile and looking at more than the first page of my comments. Believe it or not, you don't need to have passed the tests or have software development experience to make the observation that people complaining about a process are the ones that don't perform well. I've written and graded many exams, but only ever received complaints from students with C- grades or lower. Funny how that works. And it's not like software engineering is some magical pony that is different from other white collar jobs. To get into my current PhD program I had to interview with multiple people, take a 4-hour written exam, do a week-long exam at home, and I wasn't compensated for my time. So I'm not that sympathetic to people that complain about tech job interviews.

kyllo 7y ago
I've held many other white collar jobs in my career. Software engineering is different, the interviews are at least an order of magnitude harder. Google knows and admits that their process has flaws and their HR team does internal studies on it. Just because Google does something, and Google is big, doesn't mean what they do is optimal.
petagonoral 7y ago
> I never claimed to work at a FAANG company, Yet you spoke as if you had worked at some/any software company. Literally zero years dev experience (FAANG or any other). Zero software interviews. You have zero knowledge or experience of what we're talking about. Looking through your LinkedIn/comments is low effort and confirmed my suspicions of you being whatever the inverse of Dunning–Kruger is. If GoT was still relevant, I'd wistfully look at you and whisper "You know nothing, Jon Snow"
- shawabawa3 7y ago
  The inverse of Dunning-Kruger is Dunning-Kruger It states that experts tend to underestimate their ability and amateurs overestimate their abilities
swat535 7y ago
> Believe it or not, you don't need to have passed the tests or have software development experience to make the observation that people complaining about a process are the ones that don't perform well Actually you do.. It's one thing if you are upset about people questioning your credibility, but you are being disingenuous by making blanket statements with 0 credibility or evidence to back it up. > only ever received complaints from students with C- grades or lower I'm not sure what this has to do with anything being discussed. Are you implying that people with decades of experience being weeded out by these interviews somehow equate to C- grades? By your definition, ideal0227 and mxcl are subpar.

kyllo 7y ago

I've held many other white collar jobs in my career. Software engineering is different, the interviews are at least an order of magnitude harder. Google knows and admits that their process has flaws and their HR team does internal studies on it. Just because Google does something, and Google is big, doesn't mean what they do is optimal.

petagonoral 7y ago

> I never claimed to work at a FAANG company, Yet you spoke as if you had worked at some/any software company. Literally zero years dev experience (FAANG or any other). Zero software interviews. You have zero knowledge or experience of what we're talking about. Looking through your LinkedIn/comments is low effort and confirmed my suspicions of you being whatever the inverse of Dunning–Kruger is. If GoT was still relevant, I'd wistfully look at you and whisper "You know nothing, Jon Snow"

shawabawa3 7y ago
The inverse of Dunning-Kruger is Dunning-Kruger It states that experts tend to underestimate their ability and amateurs overestimate their abilities

swat535 7y ago

> Believe it or not, you don't need to have passed the tests or have software development experience to make the observation that people complaining about a process are the ones that don't perform well Actually you do.. It's one thing if you are upset about people questioning your credibility, but you are being disingenuous by making blanket statements with 0 credibility or evidence to back it up. > only ever received complaints from students with C- grades or lower I'm not sure what this has to do with anything being discussed. Are you implying that people with decades of experience being weeded out by these interviews somehow equate to C- grades? By your definition, ideal0227 and mxcl are subpar.