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Re:Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software s... by foobarian on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @08:52PM (#23854446)
My judgment of Amazon is tainted badly by a bad apple we couldn't fire soon enough - I had the unsavory role to collect evidence for failing the PIP that would inevitably happen. Week after person was let go, he was at Amazon in a pretty good division.

I keep wondering how they hired this person - never in a million years would they have passed a regular hiring chain even with fizzbuzz type questions. Wonder if they had someone stand in for the interviews.

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Re:Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software s... by decafninja on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @09:26PM (#23854707)
It's often been mentioned that interviewing skills is different from actual work skills. Could be that he's an interviewing wiz but a poor day to day engineer?

Netflix is well known for firing people that don't pull their weight with far more ease than most companies. But a friend who works there tells me there's still people there that perform poorly but somehow managed to get both hired and stay on.

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Re:Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software s... by amznthrowaway5 on Monday July 20, 2020 @09:42PM (#23903635)
Not unusual at all. Interviews are team specific and people cheat them all the time if they know people on the team. Bar raiser system doesn't work.
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