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FAANG has a system for firing people who can't cope with the complexity of the job. There is a huge survivors bios. To be a FAANG engineer you need to be able t
by msoad 6y ago
FAANG has a system for firing people who can't cope with the complexity of the job. There is a huge survivors bios. To be a FAANG engineer you need to be able to pass the interview and have the skills (mostly people skills) to navigate a large system.
- pbhjpbhj 6y agoSurely companies account for this in their interview teams? Or are they just haplessly floating on the narrowly applied intelligence of their workers? (Or something else, not suggesting a divalency).
- gregors 6y agoI don't know if it's true but during a video talk there was a story that a team of googlers were secretly given their own feedback ratings and they didn't hire themselves. https://youtu.be/r8RxkpUvxK0?t=534 https://youtu.be/r8RxkpUvxK0?t=534
- erik_seaberg 6y agoAmazon introduced the notion of a “bar raiser” who expects a candidate to be stronger than 50% of the staff. It’s sort of appealing, but if your attrition is unbiased (you lose equal numbers of strong and weak staff) the right edge of the bell curve seems too small to keep up with it.