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Why do you think they haven't adjusted again? Is it possible it is actually (loosely) correlated to job performance? I interviewed at Google and all the quest

Why do you think they haven't adjusted again? Is it possible it is actually (loosely) correlated to job performance? I interviewed at Google and all the questions were practical, challenging, and not found on leetcode. I've seen all kinds of interviews in my twenty years of experience, and while all types can be done poorly, (including DS&A ones), having some live coding is one of the best signals you can get in a short amount of time. I've been blown away by a candidate while they're talking about their experience, but then asking them to code something small, they utterly bomb. Conversely, I've seen shy, humble candidates struggle to articulate their skills, and then crush harder and harder coding challenges.

ryandvm 2y ago
> I've been blown away by a candidate while they're talking about their experience, but then asking them to code something small, they utterly bomb. You're making the opposite point you think you are. How do you know that you observed an inability to code as opposed to interview performance anxiety? I've been coding for 25 years, but have bombed my share of very simple white-boarding exercises because I panic and my brain absolutely stops working. If it's experience-based or even take home, I generally knock it out of the park. White-board coding works for FAANG because they have 100,000 applicants at any given time and it doesn't matter if it has an exceptionally high false negative rate. It does not work so well for shops that are struggling to find candidates.
- VirusNewbie 2y ago
  >You're making the opposite point you think you are. How do you know that you observed an inability to code as opposed to interview performance anxiety? I've done lots of interviews, and I know that if someone has seen a question recently, or if someone is rusty in interviews, or one of a million things can affect someone's live coding ability. So I'm not looking for speed, I don't give more 'points' to someone who is calm and collected vs. someone who takes twice as long cause they're nervous. They both "pass" in my book. I also don't particularly care if someone starts intermixing java and C++ syntax or forgets the string library and says len(var) instead of var.len() for example. I'm even fine with giving hints. But there are literally people, with hints, who cannot write a basic recursive function or understand to check for null references. That isn't being nervous. That's just...being bad at the craft.

ryandvm 2y ago

> I've been blown away by a candidate while they're talking about their experience, but then asking them to code something small, they utterly bomb. You're making the opposite point you think you are. How do you know that you observed an inability to code as opposed to interview performance anxiety? I've been coding for 25 years, but have bombed my share of very simple white-boarding exercises because I panic and my brain absolutely stops working. If it's experience-based or even take home, I generally knock it out of the park. White-board coding works for FAANG because they have 100,000 applicants at any given time and it doesn't matter if it has an exceptionally high false negative rate. It does not work so well for shops that are struggling to find candidates.

VirusNewbie 2y ago
>You're making the opposite point you think you are. How do you know that you observed an inability to code as opposed to interview performance anxiety? I've done lots of interviews, and I know that if someone has seen a question recently, or if someone is rusty in interviews, or one of a million things can affect someone's live coding ability. So I'm not looking for speed, I don't give more 'points' to someone who is calm and collected vs. someone who takes twice as long cause they're nervous. They both "pass" in my book. I also don't particularly care if someone starts intermixing java and C++ syntax or forgets the string library and says len(var) instead of var.len() for example. I'm even fine with giving hints. But there are literally people, with hints, who cannot write a basic recursive function or understand to check for null references. That isn't being nervous. That's just...being bad at the craft.