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> Ask Me Anything :) Appreciate it. For some background it would be nice if you clarify the perspective of your role as one of HR/coordination or a more techni
by tastroder 7y ago
> Ask Me Anything :)
Appreciate it. For some background it would be nice if you clarify the perspective of your role as one of HR/coordination or a more technical view on participants of these interviews.
Do you feel like current FAANG hiring practices for lower level roles incubate a generation of programmers that trains specifically for the interview process moreso than they do for the actual role you want to fill (and if so, do you feel like that is benefitial to your employer / simply a necessity at their scale / worth changing)?
edit: That makes sense, thanks!
- deanCommie 7y agoI'm an SDE, i conduct technical interviews. No, I don't think so. We would not hire a person who clearly only memorized a bunch of algorithms and data structures to solve toy problems, but cannot describe their thought process coherently, does not show a fluent ability to translate their ideas into code, or can't refactor the code or adapt their process when introduced with new requirements, scaling bottlenecks, or system failure scenarios.