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> They literally had people with 1-2 years of experience conducting interviews last I remember. What's the problem with that?
by iLoveOncall 4y ago
> They literally had people with 1-2 years of experience conducting interviews last I remember.
What's the problem with that?
- jesuscript 4y agoReally?
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- kasey_junk 4y agoIt’s indicative of a very inexperienced staff or one that is desperate for interviewers, presumably because they are binge hiring. There are places that go out of their way to get very junior people interviewing early on purpose but in those cases there is usually someone more senior also involved. For most places though it means they were throwing whoever they could find at the interviews.
- iLoveOncall 4y agoWhy would you need someone with decades of experience to hire an intern or a new grad? It's customary for a lot of companies to have an interviewer which is above or _at_ the level that you are recruiting. Therefore someone with a year or two of experience is perfectly able to hire an intern or someone that will be hired at the same level as them. Looking at Amazon for example, "Hire and Develop the Best" is one of the leadership principles, and you CANNOT be promoted if you don't conduct interviews.
- reverend_gonzo 4y agoInexperienced engineers simply don’t have the experience to make good hiring decisions. Having them being involved in the process is fine, but they should be shadowing someone more senior.
- iLoveOncall 4y agoWell, most FAANGs would like to disagree. But they must all be wrong.
- gjadi 4y agoI don't have data nor an opinion on this matter, but maybe most FAANGs are successful despite their hiring practice, not because of it.
- snapcaster 4y agoThey clearly were right? they're all laying off 20% of people. Maybe this is what you meant and I just missed the sarcasm
- acdha 4y agoThat little experience makes it hard to judge applicant quality well and means they probably aren’t answering questions accurately. It’s a dead tell of a company which has a shortage of experienced staff and is growing too quickly — very strongly reminiscent of the dotcom bubble where people had the same “number go up!” mentality & some would openly say they were just looking busy until the IPO.
- finolex1 4y agoPlenty of wildly successful companies (Google, FB, etc.) have all had junior engineers interviewing people.
- DoctorDabadedoo 4y agoNo wonder tech interviews these days are so bad.
- John23832 4y agoIn the emerging points of their business. Or “juniors” with some kind of valuable expertise to the interview. Not, “just graduated web dev boot camp and have a fleeting interest in web3” junior.
- iLoveOncall 4y agoWhich is not at all what we're talking about here since the original comment talks about people with one or two years of experience.
- lopkeny12ko 4y agoThere's nothing inherently wrong with having junior engineers conducting interviews. But if a junior engineer is on my interview panel, I'm going to politely decline and end the process. A junior is not going to have the experience to accurately evaluate someone with close to two decades of experience writing software. Same goes for kids with < 10 years of experience who call themselves "senior," which I find happens often at FAANG. Last I was interviewed by a junior, I brought up a concept for which he had never heard of. Even after explaining it in great detail, he argued with me for half the interview trying to explain why such a system would never hold in practice. Needless to say, I did not get the position. Total waste of my time.
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