We analyzed thousands of interviews on everything from language to code style

Re:We analyzed thousands of interviews on everything from la... by b0rsuk on Wednesday June 14, 2017 @09:00PM (#14557183)

Last but not least, after you fail an exam you can usually see it with errors underlined and often have the teacher explain them for you. If you answer interview questions in a suboptimal way, you get no feedback. You don't know what was the error you made, if any. Maybe another candidate simply read about the logic puzzle that was used.

The canned response I got was "We're sorry, but we can't currently recruit you. Please try again in half a year or so, maybe we will have some new opportunities." If you press on, you just get evasive answers.

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Re:We analyzed thousands of interviews on everything from la... by Sacho on Thursday June 15, 2017 @12:47AM (#14557983)

Hmm sure, but companies that don't give canned responses are liable for lawsuits. A teacher's explanation can be wrong or misleading. I've also had some of teachers refuse to explain the alleged errors in my work, and I've even had to argue with teachers that they are wrong and I'm right.

I suppose if you went to a great school and then to some shitty interviews, you'd like the school more than the interviews, and vice versa. The difference however is that a teacher is only motivated by their altruism to help you, whereas a company has actual financial motivation to find good people during the interview.

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Re:We analyzed thousands of interviews on everything from la... by b0rsuk on Thursday June 15, 2017 @05:01AM (#14558834)

You're justifying company behavior, but my post was in response to the one who wondered how could a person pass exams but fail job interviews. I pointed out there are valid reasons that are not the candidate's fault.

I'm in the profession to write and debug computer programs, not debug people who like to keep me in the dark. This is frustrating.

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