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I don't know why you think startups can afford false negatives. They absolutely CANNOT. One bad hire will kill a startup. Even spending the one hour to intervie

by eacow 6y ago

I don't know why you think startups can afford false negatives. They absolutely CANNOT. One bad hire will kill a startup. Even spending the one hour to interview someone is a significant hit to productivity. It's the big FAANGs fo the world that can absorb poor engineers. Also, for senior positions, I would expect candidates to not only clear most leetcode interviews, but to also have some insight from their experience. I expect them to be opinionated about areas of their experience, and have demonstrable success to back up their opinions. Only then can they come and lead and mentor a team of more junior contributors. A general guide line is, as a senior engineer, I would have hoped to have heard some insightful ideas or learned something from you in the course of your interview. If you are clearning leetcode problems fairly easily, I wouldn't attribute it to a crowded market and "visa holders" being even better at leetcode (I don't even know what that means, do you think they go to better schools or something?)

vmception 6y ago
I mean this is exactly why I am going to pretend to have less professional experience. These expectations have nothing to do with just doing more of the same work, but at a new company. Of course I'm fairly certain it is something about me thats the problem - this round. I don't know what that is, the recruiters don't know what that is, the feedback looks just like bad luck as I've had wildly disparate results that weren't really only rejections, no different than the blogger in the article wrote. Next round my solution is to come across as less impressive to lower the expectation and just join a team. No, I don't think visa holders are inherently better and especially not all, it is not insensitive to acknowledge greater selective pressures from the countries they came from due to pure numbers alone, as well as desire to stay within this country in the short time period they have to find a sponsor if they get laid off. This can result in greater motivation to study more and faster, and you can see this corroborated by the self-certified number of leetcode problems people say they do. The mere presence of these motivations from some unknown number of people, distorts the market. Not really that hard or fantastic to say that. I also said I was only clearing Leetcode easy problems easily. Which is a caliber that sometimes comes up in some interviews, with nothing harder presented. With harder in different interviews I was just starting to make the 30 min mark and other bars. It still sucks if you realize your first solution isn't good that there is no time to double back.

by eacow 6y ago

vmception 6y ago

I mean this is exactly why I am going to pretend to have less professional experience. These expectations have nothing to do with just doing more of the same work, but at a new company. Of course I'm fairly certain it is something about me thats the problem - this round. I don't know what that is, the recruiters don't know what that is, the feedback looks just like bad luck as I've had wildly disparate results that weren't really only rejections, no different than the blogger in the article wrote. Next round my solution is to come across as less impressive to lower the expectation and just join a team. No, I don't think visa holders are inherently better and especially not all, it is not insensitive to acknowledge greater selective pressures from the countries they came from due to pure numbers alone, as well as desire to stay within this country in the short time period they have to find a sponsor if they get laid off. This can result in greater motivation to study more and faster, and you can see this corroborated by the self-certified number of leetcode problems people say they do. The mere presence of these motivations from some unknown number of people, distorts the market. Not really that hard or fantastic to say that. I also said I was only clearing Leetcode easy problems easily. Which is a caliber that sometimes comes up in some interviews, with nothing harder presented. With harder in different interviews I was just starting to make the 30 min mark and other bars. It still sucks if you realize your first solution isn't good that there is no time to double back.