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I like the writing on this article a lot more than I thought I would, some of the advice is sound - but the big caveat is most of this has nothing to do with a
by Scubabear68 3y ago
I like the writing on this article a lot more than I thought I would, some of the advice is sound - but the big caveat is most of this has nothing to do with a first round interview. What the author describes here are pieces that will come up in a typical interview process somewhere, but probably not a first round.
First round to me is typically a “bozo filter” - screen out individuals who are clearly unqualified or who are an obvious bad fit.
Any decent dev should get past round 1 without significant prep.
- FabHK 3y agoI think some companies send junior techies to do first round filtering (with easy coding questions), while others keep the HR folks busy doing first round filtering (with, well, behavioural etc. questions as outlined in the article).
- teucris 3y agoThe article calls this out, stating that they define the first round interview as the one after a phone screen/video screen.
- Scubabear68 3y agoSo it is like two screens before the “real” interview? Weird. Sounds like a very lengthy process!
- teucris 3y agoYep. Hiring is expensive.
- wyclif 3y agoBut it didn't used to be, and not because of inflation. Somehow old school companies like IBM, Hewlett-Packard and NASA managed to hire top engineering talent by doing single interviews instead of multi-day seven interview slogs.
- teucris 3y agoI’d imagine a smaller applicant volume helped a bit there.