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It doesn’t look like a real interview itinerary at all to me. Leetcode forums are filled with Apple interview experiences and none of them are anything like thi

It doesn’t look like a real interview itinerary at all to me. Leetcode forums are filled with Apple interview experiences and none of them are anything like this. Also, I’m also a bit skeptical of the python bits, as I can’t recall anything but indifference from Apple towards supporting python. MacOS ships with a very outdated version of it.

soneil 6y ago
I've been involved with hiring (although at a company that's far from a household name), and the second half at least, sounds perfectly reasonable to me. They've taken the stuff he claims to know in-depth and explored it. That's the perfect place to dig deep. You don't take someone who has PyCon on their CV and get them to do fizzbuzz on a whiteboard - and there's no point getting into the weeds on topics they haven't even mentioned. "What makes this candidate unique" is the best place to spend the meat of an in-person interview - and the best place for the candidate to sell themselves too. Its usually far too late into the process to waste anyone's time with asking every candidate the same stock questions.
- fingerlocks 6y ago
  > You don't take someone who has PyCon on their CV and get them to do fizzbuzz on a whiteboard Disagree. I’ve also interviewed hundreds of candidates over the last couple decades, spanning a half dozen or so companies, and there’s always been a rule of consistency. Giving candidates wildly different interview experiences introduces bias, at the very least, but it also makes it very difficult to select the best candidate among a pool. There is simply no way to compare each and stack rank them, you might as well pick one at random.
  - _qulr 6y ago
    > you might as well pick one at random Indeed. Is there any scientific evidence that tech interviews are better than random selection?

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It doesn’t look like a real interview itinerary at all to me. Leetcode forums are filled with Apple interview experiences and none of them are anything like thi

by fingerlocks 6y ago

soneil 6y ago
I've been involved with hiring (although at a company that's far from a household name), and the second half at least, sounds perfectly reasonable to me. They've taken the stuff he claims to know in-depth and explored it. That's the perfect place to dig deep. You don't take someone who has PyCon on their CV and get them to do fizzbuzz on a whiteboard - and there's no point getting into the weeds on topics they haven't even mentioned. "What makes this candidate unique" is the best place to spend the meat of an in-person interview - and the best place for the candidate to sell themselves too. Its usually far too late into the process to waste anyone's time with asking every candidate the same stock questions.
- fingerlocks 6y ago
  > You don't take someone who has PyCon on their CV and get them to do fizzbuzz on a whiteboard Disagree. I’ve also interviewed hundreds of candidates over the last couple decades, spanning a half dozen or so companies, and there’s always been a rule of consistency. Giving candidates wildly different interview experiences introduces bias, at the very least, but it also makes it very difficult to select the best candidate among a pool. There is simply no way to compare each and stack rank them, you might as well pick one at random.
  - _qulr 6y ago
    > you might as well pick one at random Indeed. Is there any scientific evidence that tech interviews are better than random selection?