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> "What work have you found most challenging in your career and why? What work have you done that you are particularly proud of and why? When have you been ha
by the__alchemist 3y ago
> "What work have you found most challenging in your career and why?
What work have you done that you are particularly proud of and why?
When have you been happiest in your professional career and why?
When have you been unhappiest in your professional career and why?
For one of Oxide’s values, describe an example of how it was reflected in a particular body of your work.
For one of Oxide’s values, describe an example of how it was violated in your organization or work."
I feel like these are a test of creative writing skills, storytelling, believable exageration, and imagination more than their stated purpose.
> "In other cases, it’s even more nuanced: there have been many later-in-life converts to the beauty and joy of computers, and such candidates should emphatically not be excluded merely because they discovered their calling later than others. For those that concentrated in entirely non-technical disciplines, further probing will likely be required, with greater emphasis on their technical artifacts."
I love this section!
- superb_dev 3y agoI agree, I was turned off by their hiring process. I get it though, they’re a bold startup and they gotta make sure the talent is engaged
- PoignardAzur 3y agoI was turned off too, though it might just be because I'm a junior and don't have big projects under my belt. But yeah, this process is daunting.
- jt2190 3y ago> … their stated purpose. The stated purpose being to assess shared values: > Values > Values are often not evaluated formally at all in the hiring process — yet shared values are essential for long-term success. Some questions should be asked to suss out a candidate’s values, e.g.: [the questions] I suppose that a candidate that fundamentally doesn’t have shared values could B.S. their way through this part, but I’m struggling to understand why they would.
- WaitWaitWha 3y agoIf the question is just left hanging than I will agree, but ... Normally, I do ask these story telling questions. Tell me a story, then I will deep dive into them, dissect them, drill into the technology, relationships, communications, budgets, time frames and more. This is in lieu of me coming up with a set of rote questions that can answered in a sentence or two, then move to next topic. If the candidate is just telling me "believable exageration [sp], and imagination", it will come out real quick.
- throwawaysleep 3y agoHiring is just being good at telling lies and playing games. Happily at a young age I realized that honesty only makes sense with your Doctor.
- icelancer 3y agoIf companies do whiteboard coding, people get mad. If companies ask for longform answers, people get mad. If companies ask for code examples or public repos, people get mad. What I learned over a decade of running a company is that everyone gets mad about hiring practices, just do whatever you think is best and adjust over time. And stop taking advice from people since the Internet is full of many factions whose slices make up 100% of criticism over hiring practices, so it's impossible to get any signal out of it. True about many other things. Advice is largely useless. But especially for hiring.
- e12e 3y agoI'm guessing chat gpt will fill a role in drafting responses here. But will it play a role in surfacing applications? https://chat.openai.com/share/1607e7d6-ecd4-4024-bf25-9bd8bf3134e3 https://chat.openai.com/share/1607e7d6-ecd4-4024-bf25-9bd8bf...
- sunshowers 3y agoAs a woman of integrity and current Oxide employee, I answered those questions quite honestly. Standard behavioral interviews have the same issue where you can certainly embellish or fabricate stories.