Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test (2016)
by fjsolwmv on Thursday April 26, 2018 @12:01PM
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It's biased toward people who have taken a few weeks to prep on the standard Google interview curriculum that has been widely advertised for a decade.
Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test (2016)
by s17n on Thursday April 26, 2018 @01:25PM
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It's hiring committee's job to read the resume, not the interviewer's.
Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test (2016)
by drdeadringer on Thursday April 26, 2018 @02:12PM
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What is the interviewer's job?
Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test (2016)
by itronitron on Thursday April 26, 2018 @05:53PM
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The interviewer's job should be to determine whether, and how, the candidate would succeed in the organization.
Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test (2016)
by s17n on Thursday April 26, 2018 @06:16PM
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No, that's the job of whoever is making the hiring decision. The interviewer is providing signal for that person / people.
Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test (2016)
by itronitron on Thursday April 26, 2018 @08:17PM
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in my opinion that disenfranchises the rank and file who should, and usually do, have as much interest and voice in the organization's future as the hiring managers
Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test (2016)
by s17n on Thursday April 26, 2018 @04:36PM
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Ask a technical question or two and assess the candidate based on their reply.
Re:Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test (2016)
by drdeadringer on Friday April 27, 2018 @12:14AM
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How can you assess this when divorced from the resume, or is this technical Q&A purely "people skills" and how is that possible?
You should be aware this is not unbiased, it's just biased towards those who happen to have worked on similar problems to what you think is important.
Google can probably get away with this due to the size of applicant pool, but when I see other companies cargo-culting this approach I can't help but see a huge talent arbitrage opportunity.