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> In my opinion, it's getting rather silly. It's luck of the draw. That's really how it's always been. If you get bad interviewers, you're in for a bad time.
by onlyrealcuzzo 3y ago
> In my opinion, it's getting rather silly.
It's luck of the draw. That's really how it's always been.
If you get bad interviewers, you're in for a bad time.
If you get asked questions you know, you're in for a good time.
It's possible your odds of getting bad interviewers has increased. But I doubt the increase is that substantial.
It's interesting to me how much stock these companies put into hiring, and then let countless terrible interviewers continue to interview.
You'd think they'd recognize high quality interviewers and get them doing more than 1 interview per week, and not let people interview until passing a pretty high bar in the quality of their interview.
Instead, they pretty much let anyone interview (as long as they've been at the company for N months and gone to some training).
- Tyr42 3y agoThey also don't give any feedback on your interviews other than an eventual "they were hired" or not. So if you are a mediocre interviewer you will never know.
- michaelt 3y ago> You'd think they'd recognize high quality interviewers and get them doing more than 1 interview per week, and not let people interview until passing a pretty high bar in the quality of their interview. I think you substantially over-estimate the eagerness of software developers to take on unrewarding admin work.
- onlyrealcuzzo 3y ago> I think you substantially over-estimate the eagerness of software developers to take on unrewarding admin work. Why do you assume it can only be un-rewarding? If hiring is so important, maybe it's worth paying the best people extra to get it done correctly. If it's not that important, it'd be nice if they'd stop pretending like it is.
- michaelt 3y ago> Why do you assume it can only be un-rewarding? It’s an important day for them, so you owe them your full attention. Can’t be browsing the web or replying to emails. After a decade of interviewing, there is no excitement in watching the thousandth interviewee make the thousandth attempt to count the set bits in an integer. Hiring is important, it's just very very very boring.
- Ihateyouall2345 3y ago[dead]