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In our industry, the interview process is completely divorced from the skillset required for the actual job. Fittingly, this is because Google developed an int
by ep103 4y ago
In our industry, the interview process is completely divorced from the skillset required for the actual job.
Fittingly, this is because Google developed an interviewing process that was scalable, required minimal training, human-interactive or soft skills, and was objectively measurable (leetcode), while non-obviously biasing the interview process towards cheaper, younger interviewees. It is also an interview process that is utterly incapable of differentiating low skill from high skill engineers. For Google, which needed a way to choose between the very best resumes in its pile, this made sense. For the rest of the industry, it does not.
But apparently our industry just does whatever the "big players" do, blindly, so here we are.
- papito 4y agoRemember how Google was asking completely useless brain teasers and everyone just blindly started copycatting it? The "we want to be like Google" syndrome in tech is just devastating.
- whimsicalism 4y ago> The "we want to be like Google" syndrome in tech is just devastating. I think it is dead & dying though. Nobody would start asking brainteasers if Google went back to doing it.
- Espressosaurus 4y agoBrainteasers are dead. The parent's point that the industry follows Google's lead is a cogent observation however.
- whimsicalism 4y ago> biasing the interview process towards cheaper, younger interviewees Maybe young people entering tech are just smarter? There's a lot more people entering in the funnel, so if we keep the size of those coming out the same I would expect them to be more talented.
- tmpz22 4y agoIf Google is being pragmatic and young people are smarter and deliver more value why are they also paid less?
- davidw 4y agoOur industry is big enough that there are plenty of people not aping Google, and conducting different kinds of interviews. As someone who has been doing this for a while, I'm pretty appreciative of people who 'think differently'.
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