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.
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.