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But do they still have to pass a bunch of HackerRank-style interview questions? The best interview question in my life, a few years ago, was one where they gav
by free_rms 6y ago
But do they still have to pass a bunch of HackerRank-style interview questions?
The best interview question in my life, a few years ago, was one where they gave me an open-ended question, a laptop, and the whole afternoon with occasional checkins to see how I handled it. The evaluation was completely subjective.
That's hard to standardize at an industrial scale, I understand why FAANG can't do that, but smaller shops really should and stop denying themselves acquirable talent.
- nitrogen 6y agoI think it would be nice to have a pair coding exercise where you're given a snapshot of the company's code base from a year ago, and an actual, simple, historic ticket to work, and the interviewer kind of acts like it's your first week and you are getting to know the codebase.
- dleslie 6y agoWe don't have any technical quiz as part of our interview process. We look at experience, education and creative outlets; then folks sink or swim upon being hired. So far we're batting fairly well. Folks don't generally lie about their experience.
- free_rms 6y agoIn my youth I wound up in charge of hiring at a low-end shop due to a funny set of circumstances and absolutely got burned by people straight up lying to me. If I were more experienced, I'd have been able to ask the right questions about their alleged experience and smell the BS.
- dleslie 6y agoWe tend to catch the liars when we talk to them about the particulars of their experience; it becomes quickly apparent that they are being dishonest when they cannot answer technical queries. I've used this process for about ten years now, and it hasn't really burned me yet.