Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study

Re:Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software s... by u67583 on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @03:44PM (#23850617)

It's not just nerves either. All interviews, but especially FAANG ones, are random. The interview might be racist, sexist, etc. They might have gotten divorced that day. The question they ask you is something you haven't heard of but they spent their PhD on. You can even do everything correctly, but the interviewer doesn't like the way you did it.

The leetcode stuff is just masochism. You will spend X months beating DS&A into your brain until someone can pullout a random question and you immediately know what questions to ask, what steps to take, and how to write it out on a whiteboard.

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Re:Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software s... by bananaface on Thursday July 16, 2020 @07:22AM (#23857808)

It's difficult to remove that randomness from the process. As I see it the only reliable approach for both sides, given that structure, is volume - you just do/conduct a lot of interviews and evaluate/get evaluated on the top percentile.

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Re:Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software s... by VRay on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @07:05PM (#23853480)

I agree with you for the most part, but Google goes out of its way to force the interviewer to just hand in an emotionless, gender-neutral description of the candidate's code and coding performance to a hiring committee that makes the decision

This kinda bit me in the rear when I applied to Google a couple of times. As a nerdy American male, aged 22 to 40, with above-average people skills (for nerds) I got along great with everyone I talked to. But the hiring committee would get a sloppy page of half-functional garbage code, along with a note like "Seems like a great candidate". I found another FAANG company I fit into a lot better anyway, so it all worked out great

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