Re:Google admits brainteasers were useless for hiring (2013)
by majormajor on Thursday May 31, 2018 @04:04PM
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I generally agree with this - I've had pretty solid impressions of capability after a few weeks that have largely been proven out.
The challenge I'm still facing is crafting interview questions that most effectively match those two-week impressions.
My issue with purely sticking to coding questions is that I've seen a handful of people study enough to nail those and then be completely uncreative or unmotivated beyond that. Specificity seems to be a key thing in other types of questions, to at least weed out the hopeless. You built this thing? You had that experience? Tell me the details. Tell me the details of those details. Etc.
One of the things making it hard is that the true standouts are rare enough that I've only hired a couple of them, so it's hard to find what's meaningfully shared between them that's identifiable in a single day.
The challenge I'm still facing is crafting interview questions that most effectively match those two-week impressions.
My issue with purely sticking to coding questions is that I've seen a handful of people study enough to nail those and then be completely uncreative or unmotivated beyond that. Specificity seems to be a key thing in other types of questions, to at least weed out the hopeless. You built this thing? You had that experience? Tell me the details. Tell me the details of those details. Etc.
One of the things making it hard is that the true standouts are rare enough that I've only hired a couple of them, so it's hard to find what's meaningfully shared between them that's identifiable in a single day.