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The definitive list of companies hiring engineers right now(blog.interviewing.io)
1 points by leeny 4y ago|0 comments
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What’s going on with Google and Facebook hiring freezes?(blog.interviewing.io)
433 points by leeny 4y ago|617 comments
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Does communication matter in technical interviews? Here's the data(blog.interviewing.io)
75 points by leeny 4y ago|43 comments
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by leeny 5y ago
no, we didn't adjust for demographic biases because, look, we're an anonymous platform. we periodically survey our users to get demographic data, but it's not something we ask in the app because we've never been able to
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by leeny 5y ago
HAH.
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by leeny 5y ago
Author here. Yes, the skills are left to the interpretation of the interviewer, but most of our interviewers are senior engineers at FAANG. We've done quite a bit of work internally to make sure your interviewers are well calibrated, a
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by leeny 5y ago
I'll see if I can word that better. The real interviews in this case were where the interviewEE was from the company, not the interviewER
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by leeny 5y ago
it's possible. we did see statistical significance when comparing dropbox to others despite the relatively smaller sample size. but yes, that is possible.
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by leeny 5y ago
Author here. The data is mostly drawn from how people who work at these companies do in mock interviews rather than how our users do in real interviews with these companies.
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by leeny 5y ago
Author here. We didn't publish a histogram showing how many users we have from each company, so I guess you'll have to trust me on this one. Dropbox has waaaay fewer engineers on interviewing.io per capita than some of the other c
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We analyzed 100K technical interviews to see where the best performers work(blog.interviewing.io)
206 points by leeny 5y ago|226 comments
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by leeny 5y ago
Hey Taylor, OP and founder here. I've shared your feedback with our team. The purpose of this program is to go beyond just mock interviews, and it looks like we've not done a good job here. I'm glad you got a refund already,
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by leeny 5y ago
OP here. You don't pay til you find a job. That's really how it works. It takes as long as it takes.
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by leeny 5y ago
Here's the link to our youtube channel if folks wanna see what slytherone is referring to: https://www.youtube.com/c/interviewingio
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by leeny 5y ago
OP here. Our interviewers are all senior engineers from FAANG and FAANG-adjacent companies. Average is 8 years of experience. They've also all conducted at least 20 interviews on behalf of their employer. They're not desperate...
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by leeny 5y ago
OP here. If you do well in practice, you can book interviews with companies through us (we hire for Amazon, Dropbox, Clubhouse, MongoDB, and a bunch of others). You skip all the recruiter calls and scheduling and just go straight to the rea
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by leeny 5y ago
OP here. Yeah... throwaway interviews are a way to do it. The nice thing about interviewing.io is that you don't have to deal with all the recruiter stuff and scheduling and getting in their process in the first place. You just book pr
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Get mock interviews now, pay when you find your next job(blog.interviewing.io)
97 points by leeny 5y ago|110 comments
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by leeny 5y ago
interviewing.io | San Francisco, CA | Fully Remote interviewing.io is on a mission to fix hiring. We’re already the go-to place for software engineers to prepare for interviews, and we’re on our way to becoming their go-to place for jobs as
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interviewing.io has raised a Series A(blog.interviewing.io)
3 points by leeny 5y ago|0 comments
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Why I still run the technical phone screen as a hiring manager(blog.interviewing.io)
4 points by leeny 5y ago|0 comments
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Avoiding the audience paradox when writing job descriptions(blog.interviewing.io)
70 points by leeny 5y ago|50 comments
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The 3 things that diversity hiring initiatives get wrong(blog.interviewing.io)
6 points by leeny 6y ago|1 comments
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The technical interview practice gap(blog.interviewing.io)
146 points by leeny 6y ago|219 comments
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How do I know if I’m ready to interview at FAANG?(blog.interviewing.io)
20 points by leeny 6y ago|17 comments
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Technical phone screen superforecasters(blog.interviewing.io)
78 points by leeny 6y ago|66 comments
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by leeny 6y ago
OP here/founder of interviewing.io. What is habr?
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My platonic ideal for how engineering hiring should work(blog.alinelerner.com)
180 points by leeny 6y ago|292 comments
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Common problems I see in technical interviews(blog.interviewing.io)
49 points by leeny 6y ago|79 comments
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by leeny 6y ago
there's a link at the bottom of the post to a list of questions you can ask: https://blog.alinelerner.com/how-to-interview-your-interview... hope that helps.

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