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by soham 11y ago
Thanks Aline, for yet another well researched article. I have to say though, that in my experience, these experiments in sourcing work quite well when your hiring is small. The moment you hit some sort of scale, it becomes very very difficu
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by soham 11y ago
Hi there, At http://InterviewKickstart.com , we're trying something similar, but from the other size viz. Candidates. Our hypothesis is, that if someone showed candidates how to prepare rigorously for interviews, how good en
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by soham 11y ago
Hey Zach, great start. Founder of http://InterviewKickstart.com here. We do something similar, but with two differences: 1. We do it from a bootcamp angle. Candidates join us for rigorous (re)training in CS fundamentals. 2. Our
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by soham 11y ago
Hi Aline, very right. That's why everyone should do mock interviews at http://interviewing.io or http://interviewkickstart.com ;-) I'm half joking, but yes, it's a serious problem. What sucks more, is
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Public health emergency declared for Madison County amid Hepatitis C outbreak(fox59.com)
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by soham 11y ago
I think it is important to have both the word "why" and the specificity of Heart Attacks, CAD and Diabetes in there. "why" because otherwise it feels like an assertion, instead of reasoning. Second, it reflects specific
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by soham 11y ago
When I posted it, I had complete title like the author had it viz with Heart Disease, CAD and Diabetes. Someone edited it to shorten it. I can't tell who/when/why, and I can't edit it again.
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by soham 11y ago
When I posted it, I had complete title like the author had it viz with Heart Disease, CAD and Diabetes. Someone edited it to shorten it. I can't tell who/when/why, and I can't edit it again. Also, saying that Coronary Ar
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Young, Vegetarian, Non-Smoking Indians Are Struggling With Heart Disease(desinutritionauthority.com)
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by soham 11y ago
Don't wait for the best candidate. Get the first hireable person onboard. When you're still getting off the ground, it's okay to work with a decent hire, than to miss to holiday season because you couldn't get work done.
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by soham 11y ago
Hi Karthik, Having started a similar thing in the valley ( http://InterviewKickstart.com ), I can share my experience. 0. Who are you? Why should I prep with you? How are you better at interviewing than I am? What is your success?
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by soham 11y ago
Value is always relative to supply and demand. Case in point: elementary school teachers are far more valuable, but they are still paid peanuts because there are so many of them. Engineers who can work on large scale systems in the backend
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by soham 11y ago
Yeah, that hope from them is baseless. Truth is, you're competing with candidates who have practiced a lot. They know it, and candidates know it too. I'll re-iterate: Technical interviews are a competition. You cannot go unprepare
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by soham 11y ago
Whiteboard or not, in any interview, you are judged relative to performance of other candidates. At very coveted places like FB, they don't have a dearth of candidates. i.e. Even if you did "good enough", very likely they&#x2
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by soham 11y ago
Interviewing is not a standardized test. On the spectrum of human interactions, it's closer to a date than it's to a class test. i.e. by definition, there isn't a perfect interview process. It's different for different c
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by soham 11y ago
Interesting. Someone downvoted this comment. Not sure why. IIUC, this answers OP's question and also gives an explanation. Downvoter care to explain?
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by soham 11y ago
(About me: I was an early engineer at one of the fastest growing SaaS company on the planet. I had the privilege of contributing to our interview process that took us from 5 to 250 engineers. I'm now trying it from the candidate side:
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by soham 11y ago
Yep, economically unfeasible, but more importantly, if we give that kind of reverse guarantee, then people actually won't be motivated to work. That's exactly why no single educational institute gives a guarantee of that kind.
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by soham 11y ago
Sorry, didn't see this until now. Thank you for your feedback. I had the price up there at one point ($4K). But some people found it too expensive and would call me to just tell me that. I got tired of answering them. I hence made a di
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by soham 11y ago
(You didn't say why you want to talk about this) Name: Interview Kickstart ( http://InterviewKickstart.com ) Elevator Pitch: Nail your next coding interview. Stage: Bootstrapped. Profitable. Employees: One fulltime (me) and a
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by soham 11y ago
It's not about big corp vs startups. It's not about Java or Javascript. It's about finding and working with a team that inspires you. Those teams do exist, and are perennially looking for good programmers. Move to a tech-hub
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by soham 11y ago
Yep, point is not to test if they know Fibonacci or prime numbers. If the candidate has forgotten, then you just tell them what those things are. And then expect them to answer it. But here is the (sad?) reality: There will always be someon
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by soham 11y ago
The arithmetic here is high-school arithmetic. Even if one doesn't know it, it is easy to derive/see it during the interview. Not saying it's an excellent question. Just saying it's pretty much as quirky/inefficient
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by soham 11y ago
There are lots of such questions: 1. Reverse a String 2. Find min/max in an array 3. Find/remove duplicates 4. IsPalindrome? 5. Fibonacci (iterative especially) 6. Primes (IsPrime, print first few etc) 7. Calculate Factorial 8. Fi
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by soham 11y ago
Are you in tech? If so, you can use us viz. http://InterviewKickstart.com . Our primary thing is a coding interview prep bootcamp, where we do a lot of practice and mock interviews with people who are working at or alumni of some
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by soham 11y ago
Founder of http://InterviewKickstart.com here. This is a great observation and I fully agree with the author. I joined Box.com as an Engineer in 2008, when we were 5 engineers. Grew rapidly with the company and was most recently
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by soham 11y ago
Not common. Sounds like the interviewer lacks basic human courtesy.
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by soham 11y ago
Take technical interviewing head on. You can't have fear and worries run your life. Unless you have a strong network, (or a personal brand) and people who have worked with your prior recommending you, it's unlikely that you will b
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by soham 11y ago
There is another class of people (in tech industry atleast): Engineers who are rusty and/or who don't interview well. Tech is so interesting and varied, that my hypothesis is, that there is sizeable chunk of people, who'd swi
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by soham 11y ago
This is so true. I happen to make a living because this dichotomy is real. I run a bootcamp to prep engineers for interview skills ( http://InterviewKickstart.com ). We routinely have sad moments, thinking and seeing how little co

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