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An equivalent idea is to hire anyone who has worked at any well-known company with similarly rigorous interviews. But people from those places still perform re

An equivalent idea is to hire anyone who has worked at any well-known company with similarly rigorous interviews. But people from those places still perform really poorly in interviews at about the same rate as everyone else. I wish I knew if it was a fluke that they bombed this time or that they passed the original.

ip26 5y ago
More likely is that any company big enough to have a reputation is also big enough to have strong & weak departments, and it can be hard to tell which the candidate is from.
dilyevsky 5y ago
> But people from those places still perform really poorly in interviews at about the same rate as everyone else This doesn’t match my experience at all at least wrt to coding sessions. I don’t think I ever had someone from goog/fb bomb a coding part but I regularly had tenured engs from other well known shops not being able to code 2 nested for-loops // I did 200+ of interviews not counting when I worked for goog myself
- ipaddr 5y ago
  A successful engineer at well known shops will fail a pressured evaluation where a google engineer will pass the interview. It make sense because google's interview process is harder. That says nothing to what happens after they get hired. It also doesn't tell you tenured eng can't do two for-loops. It probably tells you that this person hasn't been interviewing for years. You are a part of their process and are a practice interview. Each time this candidate interviews they will get better and hired. If a person is really good at interviewing that probably means they do it a lot and are probably looking at moving more often. If you want to hire someone who will stay you need I would give tenured engineer a chance they will probably blow you away.
  - dilyevsky 5y ago
    > A successful engineer at well known shops will fail a pressured evaluation where a google engineer will pass the interview. It make sense because google's interview process is harder. Nonsense. Googlers will pass bc they on average ship more code than an average eng at all other companies i worked for combined together. More code written -> more practice -> better outcome in coding sessions. It’s not really a great mystery. I can only assume same is true for fb based on the outcomes I’ve seen personally > If a person is really good at interviewing that probably means they do it a lot and are probably looking at moving more often No it doesn’t mean that. It’s also really obvious from the resume

ip26 5y ago

More likely is that any company big enough to have a reputation is also big enough to have strong & weak departments, and it can be hard to tell which the candidate is from.

dilyevsky 5y ago

> But people from those places still perform really poorly in interviews at about the same rate as everyone else This doesn’t match my experience at all at least wrt to coding sessions. I don’t think I ever had someone from goog/fb bomb a coding part but I regularly had tenured engs from other well known shops not being able to code 2 nested for-loops // I did 200+ of interviews not counting when I worked for goog myself

ipaddr 5y ago
A successful engineer at well known shops will fail a pressured evaluation where a google engineer will pass the interview. It make sense because google's interview process is harder. That says nothing to what happens after they get hired. It also doesn't tell you tenured eng can't do two for-loops. It probably tells you that this person hasn't been interviewing for years. You are a part of their process and are a practice interview. Each time this candidate interviews they will get better and hired. If a person is really good at interviewing that probably means they do it a lot and are probably looking at moving more often. If you want to hire someone who will stay you need I would give tenured engineer a chance they will probably blow you away.
- dilyevsky 5y ago
  > A successful engineer at well known shops will fail a pressured evaluation where a google engineer will pass the interview. It make sense because google's interview process is harder. Nonsense. Googlers will pass bc they on average ship more code than an average eng at all other companies i worked for combined together. More code written -> more practice -> better outcome in coding sessions. It’s not really a great mystery. I can only assume same is true for fb based on the outcomes I’ve seen personally > If a person is really good at interviewing that probably means they do it a lot and are probably looking at moving more often No it doesn’t mean that. It’s also really obvious from the resume