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> Does anyone feel as flabbergasted about interviews and tests? Yes. You're at worst the average, at best part of the majority. Almost everyone sucks at inter
by BlargMcLarg 4y ago
> Does anyone feel as flabbergasted about interviews and tests?
Yes. You're at worst the average, at best part of the majority.
Almost everyone sucks at interviews and most job hiring processes are incredibly degrading. Feedback is terrible (includes no feedback). Hiring managers are all looking for different things, either subtly or wildly. Onus to get good at interviews is entirely on the individual, not on the company to make the process less of a hellscape. Hiring managers are largely biased, untrained, as are most interview processes. Many aspects of interview processes aren't even grounded in reality.
But almost nobody is talking about this as it's just something you "get done" and "bite through" once every N years. Plenty of perfectly capable people fall to the wayside and are told they are the problem. Or worse, you get a bunch of (LinkedIn) thought leaders trying to gaslight everyone into thinking corporate holds the truth and the remainder of us are peasants who simply don't understand.
- anothernewdude 4y agoDevil's Advocate: It's never been as easy to interview with multiple companies as it is now. It's a numbers game, and I would (and have) had interviews purely for practice, or our of curiosity about some companies tech stack. If you make it all about the numbers, suddenly you feel less bad about blowing an interview, or filtering bad ones out early in the process. > not on the company to make the process less of a hellscape. I mean, they do suffer in the long term. Companies after all, are the products of their hiring processes.