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Idea: Professional CS interviewers! I'm a good programmer, but not a good interviewer. That makes me pretty typical. I could spend a lot of time getting bette

Idea: Professional CS interviewers! I'm a good programmer, but not a good interviewer. That makes me pretty typical. I could spend a lot of time getting better at it, but I would only marginally improve, and it would take time out of the work I'm actually good at. This feels like a typical problem for division of labor to solve. Maybe it's already done in done form?

avl999 5y ago
You would not "marginally improve", you would dramatically improve. That's the dirty secret of these interviews they are not that hard to get good at. There are at most a little over half a dozen data structures and about a dozen algorithmic technique patterns that show up in these interviews, once you do enough of those types of problem, you get better at it. I am willing to bet that spending an hour every day on leetcode you can probably be good enough to pass interviews at most companies in a month or two (assuming you had exposure to DS and Algorithms in college, if not add more time but the general idea applies). Maybe not Google but I would bet you'd be good enough to see double digit increasing in your onsite -> offer conversion percentage. Whether that would be worth it is a different question, the answer for many people who already have good jobs is no.
paxys 5y ago
Not sure what you mean. If your idea is some kind of technical interview training, a million services for that already exist.
- BurningFrog 5y ago
  I mean professional technical interviewers that companies hire to interview candidates for them. I know it's an unusual idea, but i didn't think it would cause such confusion.
  - paxys 5y ago
    This already happens to some extent with online screening software and such. Ultimately though no team is going to trust a fully third party assessment of a candidate that they'll have to work with day to day.
    - BurningFrog 5y ago
      Yeah, I would still interview the candidate for "do you want to work with this person" factors.

avl999 5y ago

You would not "marginally improve", you would dramatically improve. That's the dirty secret of these interviews they are not that hard to get good at. There are at most a little over half a dozen data structures and about a dozen algorithmic technique patterns that show up in these interviews, once you do enough of those types of problem, you get better at it. I am willing to bet that spending an hour every day on leetcode you can probably be good enough to pass interviews at most companies in a month or two (assuming you had exposure to DS and Algorithms in college, if not add more time but the general idea applies). Maybe not Google but I would bet you'd be good enough to see double digit increasing in your onsite -> offer conversion percentage. Whether that would be worth it is a different question, the answer for many people who already have good jobs is no.

paxys 5y ago

Not sure what you mean. If your idea is some kind of technical interview training, a million services for that already exist.

BurningFrog 5y ago
I mean professional technical interviewers that companies hire to interview candidates for them. I know it's an unusual idea, but i didn't think it would cause such confusion.
- paxys 5y ago
  This already happens to some extent with online screening software and such. Ultimately though no team is going to trust a fully third party assessment of a candidate that they'll have to work with day to day.
  - BurningFrog 5y ago
    Yeah, I would still interview the candidate for "do you want to work with this person" factors.