Re:Loon and Wing graduate from Google/Alphabet X
by dmoy on Wednesday July 11, 2018 @10:36PM
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On the flip side, a good interviewer should be building rapport with the interviewee regardless of interview performance. This is especially important for earlier interviews in the day, because you don't want the candidate to get flustered and ruin future interviews.
Even better is to use that rapport to then disguise successively large hints into the interviewing process, so the candidate can't obviously tell if they've failed horribly... again to avoid tilting them for future interviews that day. Give them room and time to explore the problem space on their own, but don't let them sit in silence making no progress for 30 minutes making it painfully obvious that something is very wrong.
A single bombed interview might not kill the whole packet, so it's best to insulate.
Even better is to use that rapport to then disguise successively large hints into the interviewing process, so the candidate can't obviously tell if they've failed horribly... again to avoid tilting them for future interviews that day. Give them room and time to explore the problem space on their own, but don't let them sit in silence making no progress for 30 minutes making it painfully obvious that something is very wrong.
A single bombed interview might not kill the whole packet, so it's best to insulate.