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So the main factor for succeeding those so-called interviews is doing more of them? ie, it has nothing to do with your actual performance on the job. We should
by snakewatching 3y ago
So the main factor for succeeding those so-called interviews is doing more of them? ie, it has nothing to do with your actual performance on the job.
We should think hard as a society on what we want to spend our time on. At some point in my career I drank the koolaid that joining a FAANG was the most prestigious thing you could do. But now I start to see people working at FAANGs as bureaucratic rule-follower that put their 50 hours of leetcode-grinding (I suspect that they are implicitly filtering for those engineers that will follow tasks without asking too many questions)
- jasonpeacock 3y agoInterviewing is a skill that needs to be worked on. Unfortunately, your "portfolio" is not portable between companies and so these tedious interviews are necessary. Similarly for other technical roles like welding - they expect you to do an example weld to show you can really do the work, though there are also certification standards that help which we don't have in the software industry.
- snakewatching 3y agoSure, but for a welder there is a correlation between doing well at the test weld and how good you are at your job. With leetcode interviews there seem to be very little correlation.
- dennis_jeeves1 3y ago>I suspect that they are implicitly filtering for those engineers that will follow tasks without asking too many questions As a general rule most educational systems are that way, for example you need to be very conformist if you want to become an MD. Consequently you will not find many MDs who are no-conformist. In fact I would go so far as to say that even elementary and high school filters for conformist people who are going to be willing cogs for their government and corporate overlords in the future