4 ms·

I don't think it's totally unreasonable. Sure, there are plenty of good engineers who won't have a nice side project to bring up. And you will be auto-passing

I don't think it's totally unreasonable. Sure, there are plenty of good engineers who won't have a nice side project to bring up. And you will be auto-passing on them. The real question is, how many bad engineers are hacking away on a side project they can show off and speak intelligently about? He is right that his method doesn't scale. He is intentionally picking from a rather small bucket. But that bucket should be pretty high signal-to-noise. That makes his job pretty easy. When hiring, I often try to filter for "gets stuff done". Side projects definitely help check that box. I also filter for how deep their technical knowledge is for their experience level. I love finding people who are passionate about computers and code, as they always hit above their pay grade, but don't really try to filter for this.

fendy3002 4y ago
Yeah, that this method works and companies feeling entitled is not mutually exclusive. However it works against job seeker instead. It already taking a good chunk of productive time doing interview sessions and this can only increase it more. Now when this technique become successful and widespreadly adapted by other companies, everyone will start making minimum personal project to show, enlarging the bucket and increasing the signal until another, more effort interview style is introduced, thus reducing the signal again and repeat. In the end it'll only take more and more time from job seeker.