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Anecdotally, when I've interviewed candidates from FAANG, they've generally been a weak "would hire"; i.e. decent enough but not overwhelmingly good.
by andrewingram 4y ago
Anecdotally, when I've interviewed candidates from FAANG, they've generally been a weak "would hire"; i.e. decent enough but not overwhelmingly good.
- b112 4y agoI wonder how many FAANG candidates' primary interviewee skill, is memorizing pointless trivia, and endless thought twisters. Mostly off of books bought on amazon. None of that provides for creative thinking, or real world problem solving. Nor demonstrates it. Do these candidates interview well with normal corps? I wonder.
- bradlys 4y agoI wonder if you’ve been through FAANG interviews in the last 8 years. It sounds like you haven’t. I’ve not found other companies interviews to be particularly good either. Non-leetcode interviews get biased a lot towards personality, resume, and ability to BS.
- andrewingram 4y agoBut since any exercise you choose is going to be flawed in some way, to me it's about getting as much diversity of signal in the time you're willing to spend per candidate. For smaller orgs, 3 hours of interviews is a reasonable cap, and I find I just don't get enough signal from leetcode exercises relative to the time they generally take (in my experience as a candidate, it's been 1-2 45 minute exercises).