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This was a reasonable argument to make in, say, 2012, but not in 2022, when the company grew to something like 100k+ engineers. The hiring standards have defini
by xyzzyz 2y ago
This was a reasonable argument to make in, say, 2012, but not in 2022, when the company grew to something like 100k+ engineers. The hiring standards have definitely deteriorated, because you can’t hit these numbers with very high hiring bar. I worked at Google between 2014 and 2019, and observed it myself, and it got even worse after that: I interviewed a bunch of laid off Googlers, and while some of them were solid, I have met multiple who were barely able to pass a phone screen.
- pcwalton 2y agoI suspect that LeetCode is a factor too. Even if the hiring standards haven't deteriorated, the fact that you can "study to the test" nowadays in ways you couldn't in 2012 selects for a different set of candidates.
- benlivengood 2y agoPhone screens, at least in SRE, were chosen from the same pool of questions as the on-sites except for the whiteboard-heavy ones. I imagine practices differed org to org, but I didn't really see a drop in question quality by the time I left in 2018. Calibration still looked like a fairly meaningful signal but I suppose everything regresses to the mean eventually. Honestly, I had a lot more time and energy back then to devote to algorithms and data structures and knowing Linux and networks inside and out and not sure how I would do now.