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by leeny 11y ago
If I'm reading this correctly, calculation skills are what suffer with increased empathizing, rather than ability to solve applied math problems. Is that right? Are there examples of what constitutes calculation vs. applied problem sol
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by leeny 11y ago
Obviously I'm biased because I'm building a company around it (interviewing.io), but I don't think biases around credentialing are going to go away until interviewing is anonymous. The other stuff is harder to crack. I'd
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by leeny 11y ago
(1) We listened to most interviews on the platform to establish homogeneity. Interviews were across the board, language agnostic, and primarily algorithmic in nature. (2) We actually looked into this and noticed that time didn't really
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by leeny 11y ago
Thanks, as always, for the thoughtful notes. We certainly don't mean to imply that this is gospel, and there are limitations to the work, and fwiw, we are thinking about potentially moving to a 5 star scale. That said, if click on the
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by leeny 11y ago
These can be great. Provided that they're not used as a first-pass filter and provided they give some insight into the work the person will actually be doing. Because otherwise you're going to lose a lot of talented people who can
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by leeny 11y ago
Most of our interviews didn't have people unmasking until after the feedback step.
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Technical interview performance is kind of arbitrary(blog.interviewing.io)
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by leeny 11y ago
And look where they ended up :/
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by leeny 11y ago
As a former recruiter, I can't second this enough. Applying online is like shouting into a black hole. Pinging a real person with sincere, earnest content and talking to them like they're a person is so much better.
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by leeny 11y ago
I had to do the following to get this working: - install scikit-learn ( http://scikit-learn.org/stable/install.html ) - install nltk ( http://www.nltk.org/install.html ) - download data set: http:/&#
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by leeny 11y ago
Anyone have visibility into which teams had the most attrition?
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Fall 2015 Intern and New Grad Offers(medium.com)
2 points by leeny 11y ago|0 comments
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by leeny 11y ago
Author here. Very much appreciated.
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Engineers can’t gauge their own interview performance(blog.interviewing.io)
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Engineers can’t gauge their own interview performance(blog.interviewing.io)
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by leeny 11y ago
Sure. But just because something is self-deprecating and a (just barely funny) joke doesn't make it acceptable. Context matters, and this was literally the first thing the guy said to me.
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by leeny 11y ago
My personal favorite of the ones that I've gotten... "Normally, when a woman is dressed like that, I'm paying her to whip me." (What I was wearing included but was not limited to a leather jacket and black shoes.)
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by leeny 11y ago
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by leeny 11y ago
Author here. I get this counterpoint a lot and for good reason. My best response is that a resume isn't something you come up with on the fly. It's a document you have every opportunity to show to people, get feedback, and improve
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by leeny 11y ago
I think what you describe is a real problem and unfortunately one that getting data around is really tough, for the reasons you describe. For what it's worth, when I observed a disconnect between how well people spoke about their proje
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by leeny 11y ago
What sucks is that even if it's hyperlinked, people probably won't click it. I don't have clickthrough data for resumes (if someone does, that'd be awesome), but anecdotally, clicks won't happen unless you really ca
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by leeny 11y ago
Hey Soham. We have to stop meeting like this :) Yeah, scaling this stuff is hard. I do think there's a big danger in scaling it by offloading filtering powers to non-technical people because then you have to rely on proxies. Proxies ar
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by leeny 11y ago
Aline here. Fwiw, I don't disagree with TripleByte's findings... anecdotally, after having interviewed somewhere between 500 and 1000 people in my career, I think they're right -- I, too, have observed a disconnect between ho
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by leeny 11y ago
I'd love to hear your story. If you're so inclined, can you shoot me an email? aline@alinelerner.com
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by leeny 11y ago
Credentialing of some kind needs to exist for software engineering. Clearly traditional means like college degree aren't cutting it, and more and more people are going outside the system to learn to code, so I expect degrees are going
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by leeny 11y ago
Author here. What I meant was that right now there isn't much of a feedback loop when it comes to interviewing. If you get rejected, you often don't know why. And that sucks.
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by leeny 11y ago
Author here. I get why you parsed it the way you did. I guess what I was going for is that conventional wisdom dictates that those candidates are the good ones, and I was using that as kind of a hyperbolized thought experiment. I do NOT agr
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Lawyer who sued EFF blames Ars readers for hacking, defamation(arstechnica.com)
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by leeny 11y ago
I concur with this assessment.
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by leeny 11y ago
Recruiters are good at quickly scanning for pedigree before incurring the cognitive load required to grok projects. So, I don't think placement/layout matters that much. And pedigree doesn't just refer to your degree -- it&#x

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