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I just went through a long period of job hunting (thankfully now employed) and this post rings 100% true, especially the part about being rejected for inexplica
by fivedogit 12y ago
I just went through a long period of job hunting (thankfully now employed) and this post rings 100% true, especially the part about being rejected for inexplicable reasons. The "gotcha" question about Fourier transforms that you last worked with for half a semester in college 10 years ago? That question cannot possibly be a serious qualifier for a full stack dev position. Instead, i suspect it's meant to either (a) make the interviewer look smart to their (possibly nontechnical) startup founder bosses and (b) provide cover for rejecting you for some other reason that can't be spoken out loud, like "cultural fit".
I think you're right. They set salaries low and the bar insanely high, reject a bunch of candidates to make themselves feel like they can be the next Google, then ultimately settle on a lucky person who just happens to be there as they've gotten acutely desperate and given up hope of finding a mythical 10x engineer.
- pastProlog 12y agoSometimes people haven hidden agendas - they want to bring their friend in and want to show they had dozens of interviews and could not find anyone. I was at a Fortune 1000 company and we interviewed one guy. He answered every technical question flawlessly. He was personable. The lead turned him down. I argued it since he was the best we had seen. He said "I don't think he'd appreciate it if we called him at 3AM to do some work". This was the reason to not hire him, since no other rational reason could be given. The position wound up being filled by his friend, whose skill set was way below the interviewed guy, and who ambled in at 10:30-11:00 AM every day.
- gaius 12y agoAsking questions about undergrad topics is a way to sneak ageism under the radar. Companies who do this should be named and shamed.