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I read through one of his emails. This guy is great at communicating his interest and signaling himself as a "high performer". Perhaps, he is also genuinely go
by bibek_poudel 1y ago
I read through one of his emails. This guy is great at communicating his interest and signaling himself as a "high performer".
Perhaps, he is also genuinely good at cracking these interviews. No wonder, he's been through so many of them.
- mathiaspoint 1y agoInterviewing really is a distinct skill from contributing and the more people crank it the more it seems to test for interview ability.
- skeeter2020 1y agoI suspect (and have seen some evidence) that the interviews he aced were algo-based. Doing well in these is very repeatable, with low additional effort. Behavioural are much harder to do at scale.
- ninetyninenine 1y agoIQ tests are also distinct skills but IQ scores are the most quantifiable and studied numbers in all of psychology and correlate with all kinds of things like job performance. I think the purpose of the interview is the same thing. Even though there's no strong evidence for a correlation it's reasonable to believe intuitively that there is.
- alpb 1y agothis email? https://x.com/var_epsilon/status/1940492841232584745 https://x.com/var_epsilon/status/1940492841232584745
- mpeg 1y agoThat's a particularly terrible cold email, you can tell he didn't even bother applying some basic personalisation to it outside of [COMPANY_NAME]
- sreekanth850 1y agoNutshell: Toxic founders who want developers to code 24X7 may hired him seeing this.
- anon_2222 1y agoding ding ding. both soham + recruiter implied he basically just codes day and night. our founder (yc) was drooling! there's a very specific type of company + founder that falls for this stuff. no surprise he targeted ai startups.
- sreekanth850 1y agoYes, this is probably what happened. Not like he was a super human engineer.