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I hear about job applications and interviews these days and they sound so daunting. My first job as a developer in 2006 I sat with the lead developer, had a ve
by donatj 3y ago
I hear about job applications and interviews these days and they sound so daunting.
My first job as a developer in 2006 I sat with the lead developer, had a very comfortable chat about things I had built, things I was interested in both related to programming and otherwise. Conversation turned to math and algorithms a little bit. He stepped out and came back with an offer. Whole thing took maybe 45 minutes.
I honestly feel as far as interviews have gone, it did the best of honestly sizing me up as a person.
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- dntrkv 3y agoThe problem is that the modern tech interview process was created by large companies like Google. They needed an “unbiased”, scalable process to hire thousands of engineers with the main goal of reducing false-positives. Most companies don’t operate anywhere close to this scale and should not imitate this same hiring process.
- cudgy 3y agoMy inclination is that it is just a larger dumpster fire when performed by the larger companies. Poor tools don’t scale.
- musicale 3y agoWhat they've essentially produced might be slightly better than randomly accepting 5% of the applicants that make it to the interview stage. Probably not much better though, and much less efficient.