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Re:My platonic ideal for how engineering hiring should work by wanderer2323 on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @06:25PM (#24842947)
> There is no meaningful data that any hiring process--good or bad--improves the outcome of a hire. If there were, everyone would be using it.

But every company in FAANGMO does use the same (or at least pretty similar) hiring process.

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Re:My platonic ideal for how engineering hiring should work by goostavos on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @11:45PM (#24844568)
Just because it's widely used doesn't mean it's good.

Source: they let me interview people at one of those fancy FAANGMO places (and I don't actually know what I'm doing). Interview success comes down to how lucky you get in the loop imo.

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Re:My platonic ideal for how engineering hiring should work by carabiner on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @06:39PM (#24843030)
Yep. And there are zero large, successful tech companies hiring SWE's with anything other than Leetcode-style interviews.

Hiring is doing just fine.

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Re:My platonic ideal for how engineering hiring should work by mcqueenjordan on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @06:46PM (#24843073)
This isn't true, depending on your definition of large. For example, Stripe is known to have an engineering interviewing process that diverges from the typical leetcode-style questions.

I think hiring is "doing just fine" and there's room for order-of-mag improvements on precision/recall.

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