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I got one of these as the second step for a senior engineering manager position. I had the luxury of telling them there was an obvious disconnect in terms of wh
by skeeter2020 5y ago
I got one of these as the second step for a senior engineering manager position. I had the luxury of telling them there was an obvious disconnect in terms of what we felt was valuable and required to be a good leader, and cancelled the process. No response from them until 3 months later I got an email saying they were moving forward with a different candidate and asking me to rate their interview process!
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Hi [PeopleOps],
I started the assessment and was very disappointed to the point where I didn't complete it. I've been an Engineering Manager for about three years and still have a lot to learn, but I've never encountered anything that looks like a set of brain teaser puzzles & psychometric analysis similar to this test. I have to interpret this a huge mismatch between how [Company Name] defines the best skills and aptitudes for the role and my own, so I'm going to withdraw from the process. I can't imagine a lot of candidates are prepared to jump through these sort of hoops but that's just my single perspective.
MONTHS LATER
Thanks for the time earlier this week.
I wanted to give you a heads up as to where we are at in our Sr. Engineering Manager hiring. We had an Engineering manager join us earlier this week and as of right now, we're ok on the hiring front.
I'd love it if you could provide us some feedback on the process as we're always looking to improve. Here's a link to a very brief survey that would really help us out. Thanks!
- HeyLaughingBoy 5y agoOne of the things I've come to enjoy about becoming a more senior engineer is how the interview flow has changed over time. Now that I've interviewed lots of people myself, I understand the person on the other side of the desk a lot better and I feel it's a far more balanced relationship. The issues that candidate employers are concerned about are (should be) more along higher level constructs such as ensuring quality or how to decide on a new technology or platform. What's a really interesting bug you found -- where really interesting probably means it was a system level issue, not just some bad code. The interview becomes a detailed discussion between peers who are each trying to understand if they want to work with the other. If someone started out with leetcode crap I'd probably react exactly as you did.
- geekbird 5y agoI've only done one of those nasty psychometric tests once. I didn't get a call back . This wasn't a surprise since they screen out non-neurotypical people with tests that are biased against dyslexia, colorblindnesss, dyscalculia, dysgraphia, ADHD, autism, and sequelae of brain trauma like short term memory faults.