Re:Google admits brainteasers were useless for hiring (2013)
by taurath on Thursday May 31, 2018 @08:52PM
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> I think that "everyone is interviewed in the same manner" thing can eventually evolve into better hiring process - because it will overtime produce data that can be learned from.
I agree also in theory, but as you said there are vast differences in speciality. Some programmers are far more product focused and have an eye for design and communication, and some only do well when they're deep in the weeds of some obscure perf optimization. The latter gets hired quicker, while the former can often do a lot of useful things for an organization.
But, I also think that it will end up split into different kinds of interviews for different positions. The older I am the more I believe that there is no single "good in tech" aptitude and that such notion is nonsense. Rather, different tech jobs require very different amounts of abstract thinking, logic, patience, memory, aesthetic feel, detailed knowledge of some sub-area, ability to communicate, self control, punctuality and so on and so forth.
You can be quite crappy at assembler and heavily talented for enterprise java for example. You can be good at smaller projects and completely fundamentally fail in large codebase many people situation.