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Re:Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software s... by StavrosK on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @03:42PM (#23850593)
Exactly agreed, and because my inclination is to say "I've never used this in previous jobs and will never use it here", I don't think it's useful for me to be interviewing for jobs.

A friend of mine, when asked to implement an AVL tree, actually asked an interviewer when the last time he had to implement an AVL tree on the job was. He wasn't hired.

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Re:Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software s... by ccajas on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @09:18PM (#23854638)
They must be willing to eat their own dog food or else the question won't make any sense for the interview.

The department should run the interviews through their own employees first. If some questions cause an "interview anti-loop" (a set of other employees S who would not hire E) it's time to revise those questions.

Revise and rehearse these practice interviews within the department, and do it blind, until all of S are willing to "hire" each other for their respective roles.

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Re:Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software s... by monksy on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @11:25PM (#23855404)
I've never had this prep for interviewing people.

Most of the time you see the resume a few days before. They may say a few things "don't say this don't say that". (hr)

Most companies take the rejection as a point of pride. "We've rejected 100s of candidates."

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Re:Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software s... by bananaface on Thursday July 16, 2020 @07:19AM (#23857781)
Asking you to visualise & manipulate a novel data structure you don't have practice with is a feature, not a bug. It's a specialised IQ test.
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Re:Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software s... by StavrosK on Thursday July 16, 2020 @07:28AM (#23857841)
And what is asking you to reinvent on the spot an algorithm that took scientists years to come up with?
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Re:Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software s... by bananaface on Thursday July 16, 2020 @07:41AM (#23857943)
Very stupid, and shows the interviewers don't understand the point of the process either.

I don't like the structure, I think it's very flawed, but asking you to do something you do regularly defeats the purpose.

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