I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in six days

Re:I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in s... by apo on Friday January 18, 2019 @04:05PM (#18943076)

Implied but not explicitly stated in the post is the idea that these interviews are mainly about solving puzzles given during interviews.

How depressing. A big part of software development is knowing how to get things done with people you don't agree with or like. A good chunk of the rest is about communication. You know, organizing thoughts into something coherent and actionable, speaking, writing, and most of all listening.

Is big tech hiring that broken that a person's past history of shipping quality software under severe business constraints matters so little?

Or is it perhaps that too few people at large tech companies are capable of evaluating candidates on any other basis than cooked-up on-the-spot brain teasers?

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Re:I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in s... by chooseaname on Friday January 18, 2019 @04:13PM (#18943152)

No, it's a hazing ritual to see if you'd be a good member of their fraternity.

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Re:I interviewed at six top companies in Silicon Valley in s... by gamma-male on Friday January 18, 2019 @04:15PM (#18943163)

I've gone through the same. Only google makes you write code on the whiteboard and only Google gives you A lot of puzzle coding interviews. With the others there is way more discussion and system design going on. It's much nicer as a candidate.

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