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I think part of the problem is that places with coding interviews usually pay better than those without, and the ones with the really painful, idiotic, grueling
by handrous 5y ago
I think part of the problem is that places with coding interviews usually pay better than those without, and the ones with the really painful, idiotic, grueling interviews that everyone hates offer the top pay, so the system ends up sorting all the worst candidates to the companies that don't do "normal" coding interviews.
In fact, I think that effect is exactly why the top-paying places do it, because it makes their hiring easier. At this point, if any of them unilaterally drops the hellish, silly, hazing-interview process, they'll be inundated with good candidates they've been excluding plus a shitload of bad ones who'd already been filtered out by the fact that their process is hellish and silly. So none of them will.
- onlyrealcuzzo 5y agoSomeone wrote a really great article for how you should play this as a company if you can't pay the best. Unfortunately, don't have the link. The premise is: you should be aware that there's a large subset of good engineers who aren't particularly great at coding interviews - and you should set up your interview process to select for those candidates.
- handrous 5y agoHahaha, like Moneyball for programmers. I like it.