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It's not bizzaro if you think like where the concept originated. It comes from FAANG size companies that do thousands of interviews and need a "standardized" wa
by emrah 6y ago
It's not bizzaro if you think like where the concept originated. It comes from FAANG size companies that do thousands of interviews and need a "standardized" way to evaluate candidates, compare them to each other. Very similar to how SAT scores are supposed to evaluate & compare millions of students.
Smaller companies should absolutely break away from this way of interviewing to find developers that can do great work for them but the pressure (or envy?) to conform is too strong I guess.
- _qulr 6y ago> It comes from FAANG size companies that do thousands of interviews and need a "standardized" way to evaluate candidates, compare them to each other. The irony is that the founders and initial employees of these companies were never interviewed in this way. They were mostly just school friends. So it's highly dubious whether these specific hiring practices were even crucial to the success of those companies. People are emulating the wrong things and just cargo culting.
- emrah 6y agoHaha yes exactly! The issue is that the list of people you have worked with and can trust without some vetting process turns out not to be that long. So after a while, you run out of those people and have to resort to some kind of interviewing if you need dozens of hundreds of engineers.