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It's unfortunate that the skills they claim to value are ones that can't be measured, especially in the limited time of an interview: "leadership, humility, col
by joesmo 13y ago
It's unfortunate that the skills they claim to value are ones that can't be measured, especially in the limited time of an interview: "leadership, humility, collaboration, adaptability and loving to learn and re-learn." While these are great qualities, I wonder what they actually base their decisions on in lieu of the above information.
- blazespin 13y agoThey measure that over time. Coding skills they can measure quite well.
- josu 13y ago>If it’s a technical role, we assess your coding ability, and half the roles in the company are technical roles. Which means that the other half are not technical roles.
- fatman 13y agoThis has always baffled me. Is coding the only technical skill? It's especially bewildering when a company seeks a software engineer with expertise in a highly technical domain and populates the interview primarily with programming questions. If they can find the subject matter expert who also happens to be a master software craftsman, congrats to them, but I'm guessing that person doesn't come along very often. (Maybe I'm bitter, but with the level of skill in computer vision I can demonstrate, don't you think you can teach me your programming nits in short order?)
- illuminate 13y ago"This has always baffled me. Is coding the only technical skill?" What other non-soft skills are you discussing?
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- yetanotherphd 13y agoYou can tell some of these things from an interview. For example, when I interview, I never pretend to agree with something the interviewer says. If the interviewer doesn't agree that my algorithm is O(N), I will keep arguing that it is, unless we decide to move on. I can be quite convincing, so I have even convinced interviewers of things that are wrong during interviews. This approach demonstrates an ability to collaborate. If a person can't debate a straightforward problem without either backing down immediately, or getting angry or defensive, how will they be able to deal with protracted disputes about the design of complex projects?
- siphor 13y agoThis sounds highly unproductive in the high stress situation that the interviewee is in. Hence the 'high false negatives' I guess.
- yetanotherphd 13y agoWorking in a big company is inherently "high stress". Dealing with an interviewer isn't scarier than dealing with someone way higher than you in the reporting chain.
- waterlesscloud 13y agoThis does not match my experience. Interviews can sometimes make me nervous, but I have a history of having zero problem defending an opinion against someone 7 or 8 layers above me.
- 001sky 13y agoWorking in a big company is inherently "high stress" The NFL is high stress, but there are home games and away games. And playing local rivals you know well, and distant teams you know less well. Much BigCo work is done "on the inside", amid familiar faces; or with cultural reference points you have in common {etc}. Interviewing with a new company can be a hit-or-miss affair because it requirese the establishment of common ground. That's in part why many people short-list resume's with applicants who went to the same or similar schools, or who have worked with common colleagues/products/platforms etc. It all becaus the over-head to process and place context around the applicant is much cheaper (efficient) in the sense of less mantally taxing for the Inverviewer (and if lucky, the interviewee). So in short, that's why new contexts themselves can be more stressful than what might otherwise appear to be "higher" stress from the outside.
- rtpg 13y agoThe alternative (deluding yourself into thinking you can somehow quantify how well someone will work in a company through some metrics) seems a lot more dangerous in the long term.