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I actually made some friends over discord who ran mocks with me. Being a person who spent most of university partying rather than hanging out with the studious

by kache_ 5y ago

I actually made some friends over discord who ran mocks with me. Being a person who spent most of university partying rather than hanging out with the studious people, I didn't have much friends who had the same programming skill as I was. Just look around, I'm sure you can find people with similar skill to run mocks with you (without having to go through some paid service that most likely employs desperate people ergo less qualified people). Plus, running the interviews yourself could be more valuable than going through one.

leeny 5y ago
OP here. Our interviewers are all senior engineers from FAANG and FAANG-adjacent companies. Average is 8 years of experience. They've also all conducted at least 20 interviews on behalf of their employer. They're not desperate... they're doing this because they 1) get paid and 2) enjoy helping people get better at this stuff. Happy to set you up with an account so you can get a feel for the quality.
- Wagthesam 5y ago
  I'm senior at a large bay area tech co. I used this service a few years ago and actually got great feedback and tips (11 offers during that search, almost 100% offer rate for onsite). I'm also on the recorded interviews list One of my interviewer (from ms) actually had too high a bar and was good to see an upper bound for coding interviews Highly recommend this service
- kache_ 5y ago
  Have you tried to flip the script and allow people training for interviewing to interview master interviewees? So they can see what success looks like?
- dundarious 5y ago
  Given the widespread (and not unreasonable) belief that FAANG-style interview processes function as more of a quantity filter (quite arbitrarily reduce the candidate pool down to a size that human hiring teams can deal with) rather than a quality filter (find ideal workers), it's quite humorous to see the same people running those ineffective interviews profiting off of making them a worse quantity filter. If you squint at it, you can see this is graft/corruption but legalized through layers of indirection (a classic practice in the US).
- geoduck14 5y ago
  What if I'm hiring and I want to test out interview questions. Is that a service you offer?

by kache_ 5y ago

leeny 5y ago

OP here. Our interviewers are all senior engineers from FAANG and FAANG-adjacent companies. Average is 8 years of experience. They've also all conducted at least 20 interviews on behalf of their employer. They're not desperate... they're doing this because they 1) get paid and 2) enjoy helping people get better at this stuff. Happy to set you up with an account so you can get a feel for the quality.

Wagthesam 5y ago
I'm senior at a large bay area tech co. I used this service a few years ago and actually got great feedback and tips (11 offers during that search, almost 100% offer rate for onsite). I'm also on the recorded interviews list One of my interviewer (from ms) actually had too high a bar and was good to see an upper bound for coding interviews Highly recommend this service
kache_ 5y ago
Have you tried to flip the script and allow people training for interviewing to interview master interviewees? So they can see what success looks like?
dundarious 5y ago
Given the widespread (and not unreasonable) belief that FAANG-style interview processes function as more of a quantity filter (quite arbitrarily reduce the candidate pool down to a size that human hiring teams can deal with) rather than a quality filter (find ideal workers), it's quite humorous to see the same people running those ineffective interviews profiting off of making them a worse quantity filter. If you squint at it, you can see this is graft/corruption but legalized through layers of indirection (a classic practice in the US).
geoduck14 5y ago
What if I'm hiring and I want to test out interview questions. Is that a service you offer?