Re:The technical interview is an ego trip
by johnbcoughlin on Friday September 11, 2020 @08:02PM
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If the whole process is capricious, it says a lot more about the company than about any individual interviewer.
Re:The technical interview is an ego trip
by pmiller2 on Friday September 11, 2020 @08:58PM
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IMO, "capricious" is a word that could be used to describe any interview process that isn't a structured, formalized process. You don't get a good signal out of ad hoc interviews, you can't calibrate across interviewers, and you can't compare accurately across candidates, so why bother?
I've had great interviews with a company, and then I've had one where the person was looking for me to say 'base64" (which I wasn't actually aware of at the time!) even though I was explaining the same exact concept from the same company. The whole process is capricious.