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Some people are very good at BSing their way through interviews, even technical ones. Those people also end up being very difficult to fire and are generally po
by nathanfig 5y ago
Some people are very good at BSing their way through interviews, even technical ones. Those people also end up being very difficult to fire and are generally poisonous to culture. Asking them to code is a great filter, it’s hard to fool a compiler. It shouldn’t be the only filter, but for coding roles a coding interview is pretty critical.
- didip 5y agoAsking them to code is indeed a great filter. But is Dynamic Programming question necessary to perform the filter?
- ed_balls 5y agoFacebook and other companies banned Dynamic Programming.
- didip 5y agoIs this a recent thing? I still got them two years ago.
- ed_balls 5y agoNo idea. That's what I heard from a eng manager at FAANG 2 months ago. He said "We don't ask DP questions, they don't resemble problems that you are expected to do while working. You can still some of the problems using DP, but we don't ask pure DP problems."
- vthallam 5y agoYes, we don't ask DP questions. (I work at FB)
- stjo 5y agoWhat?
- ruph123 5y agoHow are people in the US difficult to fire?
- patja 5y agoBecause attorneys know how deep the employer's pockets are, which gives them a great incentive to pull out all the stops, which gives corp HR the incentive to make sure there is a long and painful performance management process before anyone can be fired without it exposing the company to too much risk.
- ncmncm 5y agoIn other words, firing people in the US just costs money. Not very much, usually.
- andrew_ 5y agoThis doesn't apply to right-to-work states. Nuance is required in an argument like this. For nealy half the country, "hard to fire" is bullshit FUD. It's another excuse to be lazy in interviewing and follow FAANG in lock step.
- bin_bash 5y ago"right-to-work" means you can't be forced to join a union. It has nothing to do with this.
- patja 5y agoHaving lived and worked in a right to work state all my life, your comment does not ring true for my experience. Employees can be members of a "protected class" (one of which is simply being over age 40) which is often the core of an improper firing civil suit.