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Your job, as an interviewer, is to be biased against candidates that will not help your company meet its goals. I don't know enough about FAANGs to say whether
by __MatrixMan__ 4y ago
Your job, as an interviewer, is to be biased against candidates that will not help your company meet its goals.
I don't know enough about FAANGs to say whether they cause enough lasting damage to their employees such that they should considered a red flag on a resume--but I don't think that there's anything wrong with that kind of reasoning.
Personally, I feel that way about defense contractors. If you're content with moving at the speed of red tape, then you're going to be at a slight disadvantage when it comes to convincing me to hire you.
- roland35 4y agoI think that may be fair to bring up in an interview but I don't think it's fair to be biased against a candidate. What you see as red tape may be important safety and quality steps in that industry. A good engineer should be able to recognize what process is good for what product! It's important to check our biases because even filtering out based on industry makes your candidate pool less diverse (age, experience, gender, etc) and leads to the tech monoculture which at least I don't think is a positive thing.
- __MatrixMan__ 4y agoIf it turns out to be useful red tape and not just justification for corruption then there's no problem. But the fact that you're going into an interview with a todo-item for finding out, and you wouldn't for a different candidate... That's a bias, but it's not a problem.