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I wish a company would run an experiment where they just higher at random from a stack of team vetted resumes. I think the results would almost be the same as b

I wish a company would run an experiment where they just higher at random from a stack of team vetted resumes. I think the results would almost be the same as being super picky. Why can’t anybody trust verifiable info these days - that you worked for $COMPANY doing some $JOB for $YEARS. Why are resumes completely thrown out the window and you start from ground zero on a whiteboard when you have over a decade of experience. I wasn’t practicing leet for the last decade, I was doing actual engineering. I work in aerospace which often does a STAR behavioral interview (very light to zero technical interview) and I can honestly say that I work with some of the brightest people I’ve ever met.

zamnos 4y ago
Unfortunately the STAR behavioral questions are even easier than Leetcode to study up for, and they're a pretty common interview set for managers or to set leveling, so a prepared candidate will ace those questions.
- polalavik 4y ago
  My point was more that you can get capable engineers without any technical interview process.
zeroonetwothree 4y ago
I've interviewed people from $BigTechCompany (with 5+ years experience) that couldn't do some basic whiteboard coding question. I wasn't asking any dynamic programming-type obscure thing that no one actually uses, but rather a realistic question that they might actually have to code (indeed it was based on a problem I had to solve myself at my job). So it's not that I don't trust that they didn't work there, but that doesn't mean that they can do a good job here. Every company has low performers, perhaps their previous employer was just bad at detecting them.
- neon_electro 4y ago
  Care to share the example problem?
- polalavik 4y ago
  I think a lot of people are just not as performative as interviews demand. I think these people would be perfectly capable at the job if you hired them, but the interview experience (emotionally, collaboratively) is nothing like how you work day to day.

zamnos 4y ago

Unfortunately the STAR behavioral questions are even easier than Leetcode to study up for, and they're a pretty common interview set for managers or to set leveling, so a prepared candidate will ace those questions.

polalavik 4y ago
My point was more that you can get capable engineers without any technical interview process.

zeroonetwothree 4y ago

I've interviewed people from $BigTechCompany (with 5+ years experience) that couldn't do some basic whiteboard coding question. I wasn't asking any dynamic programming-type obscure thing that no one actually uses, but rather a realistic question that they might actually have to code (indeed it was based on a problem I had to solve myself at my job). So it's not that I don't trust that they didn't work there, but that doesn't mean that they can do a good job here. Every company has low performers, perhaps their previous employer was just bad at detecting them.

neon_electro 4y ago
Care to share the example problem?
polalavik 4y ago
I think a lot of people are just not as performative as interviews demand. I think these people would be perfectly capable at the job if you hired them, but the interview experience (emotionally, collaboratively) is nothing like how you work day to day.