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Here's a question: at companies with these kind of approaches, how many of the founders and early employers would have done well in these interviews themselves?
by 7Figures2Commas 14y ago
Here's a question: at companies with these kind of approaches, how many of the founders and early employers would have done well in these interviews themselves?
Obviously, services grow and the Facebook of 2013 is very different from the Facebook of 2004, but it's kind of funny to see companies that succeeded because the original team was able to ship (period) evolve to focus on hiring CS majors who can reinvent the wheel on a whiteboard.
- randartie 14y agoIf you inspect the actual early employees, a majority of them were ivy league grads who most certainly could solve these easy interview problems (It also helped that they could ship code).
- nilkn 14y agoThat doesn't mean they would have done well in the interviews. Quite a different thing entirely, really. I mean, there's some correlation, but it's not that strong.