Re:Dark Motives and Elective Use of Brainteaser Interview Qu...
by goostavos on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @10:59PM
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My FANG corp matches on points 1 & 2. Occasionally you'll find people who request 3. However, in my experience, that is by far the exception.
After doing my fair share of interviews and sitting through a ton of debriefs, I'm pretty convinced that getting hired boils down entirely to the loop you get. Some poor bastards get the wrong people -- people who either want to prove their smartness, or simply have out dated ideas -- and that's that. Didn't use inheritance in your system design? Well you got Bob instead of Joe. Bob loves old school OOP and thinks composition is a character flaw. If you got Joe, you'd be in, but... alas.
No amount of "calibration" solves bias.
That's a very rare individual. I've been on both sides of the desk a lot, and I don't think I've ever run into anybody like that.
The much simpler explanation is that being an interviewer is hard and takes work and practice like any other skill. The problem is that nobody ever applies actual work to interviewing.
Did somebody let you watch their interviews before letting you interview somebody else? Did somebody watch your interview to give you advice for what you did wrong and right? Did you ever role play being an interviewer? Do your interviewers occasionally try to calibrate themselves to other interviewers?
I can count the number of people who can answer "yes" to even one of those questions on one hand without using a majority of the fingers--and that's over my entire career.