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by leeny 8y ago
Am I the only one who's relieved when someone flakes on me? Less human interaction ftw (of course in some scenarios it's really frustrating... but for non-urgent meetings, flaking can be a boon to win back precious time and energy
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What to say when recruiters ask you to name the first number(blog.interviewing.io)
330 points by leeny 8y ago|332 comments
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by leeny 8y ago
I guess a more general way of putting it would be that I believe in redefining credentialing in tech to be more efficient/meritocratic in parallel with giving broader access to education.
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Diversity quotas suck. Here's why.(blog.alinelerner.com)
20 points by leeny 8y ago|4 comments
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by leeny 9y ago
Fixed! Thanks for calling it out.
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by leeny 9y ago
Would it be helpful to update the post with school tier distribution?
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by leeny 9y ago
We have a bunch of MIT students. The sad truth is that everyone is scared of technical interviews.
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by leeny 9y ago
Graphs fixed. Just added static image fallback for when Plotly runs into issues. Sorry about that, and thanks for calling it out! Re qualification bias, we call it out explicitly in the article. Without the coding assessment before the real
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We looked at how a thousand college students performed in technical interviews(blog.interviewing.io)
178 points by leeny 9y ago|96 comments
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by leeny 9y ago
Hey founder of interviewing.io here (saw we were mentioned and figured I'd jump in). We provide engineers with free, live (and anonymous) interview practice. If you do well, you get fast-tracked at top companies. I also agree with the
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What do the best interviewers have in common?(blog.interviewing.io)
237 points by leeny 9y ago|142 comments
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by leeny 9y ago
Median interviewing.io user currently has 6 years of experience (we don't ask people their ages).
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by leeny 9y ago
Please put your current location. We'll be asking about where you want to work later in the flow.
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by leeny 9y ago
You're right! Will fix.
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by leeny 9y ago
Shoot me an email, and I'll gladly get you an account. aline@interviewing.io
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by leeny 9y ago
We have 2 pools: a practice pool and then a pool where you get guaranteed interviews with employers. If you do well in practice, you can book real interviews with any number of top companies who've come to trust in the quality of our u
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by leeny 9y ago
Shoot me an email. aline@interviewing.io This is our first season doing university stuff, so pricing is flexible.
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by leeny 9y ago
This is exactly what we're solving at interviewing.io. We open up our practice platform to all students, and the best performers rise to the top, completely independently of school/geography. We're really, really proud of thi
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by leeny 9y ago
That's why we're really proud of what we do at interviewing.io. All students have to go through a series of practice interviews, so by the time they talk to companies, we know they're great, and so far, most of the students w
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by leeny 9y ago
I agree. Unfortunately, that data is much harder to glean than phenotypically (somewhat) obvious traits like gender and skin color. Sigh. The official term for this is "distance traveled", and there's a bit more about it here
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If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the same five schools(blog.interviewing.io)
631 points by leeny 9y ago|479 comments
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The Intuitive Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms(interviewcake.com)
362 points by leeny 9y ago|62 comments
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by leeny 9y ago
interviewing.io | Sales Manager | SF | ONSITE, FULL-TIME | https://www.interviewing.io interviewing.io helps companies hire great engineers. We provide candidates with free, live, rigorous practice interviews and use data from t
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by leeny 9y ago
We're still free, and we always will be.
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by leeny 9y ago
IIRC, folks who've recommended us on HN have used it (we get notified when people post about us bc it's obviously something we care about a lot). Sorry again about the delay, and I hope you like the product.
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by leeny 9y ago
Hey, I'm the founder of interviewing.io. We're coming out of private beta soon, which means we'll be sending out invites to folks on the waiting list shortly. A year is a long time though, and I'm sorry you had to wait t
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by leeny 9y ago
hey, founder of interviewing.io here. no need to feel bad =) though you're always welcome, in any capacity!
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by leeny 9y ago
We actually did the KS test as well, but we omitted the results for narrative clarity. Our KS test statistic is also < 0.05.
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by leeny 9y ago
Graphs have been fixed! Sorry about that, HNers.
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by leeny 10y ago
inetrviewing.io | Software Engineer | San Francisco | Onsite | Full-Time interviewing.io is looking for a back-end engineer. We give great engineers like you free, anonymous technical interview practice, and if things go well, you can book

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