“I've had to relearn coding to get through the new interviews”

Re:“I've had to relearn coding to get through the new interv... by ryandrake on Friday December 04, 2020 @03:13PM (#25307151)

Is that really true? I've interviewed ex-FAANG employees at some jobs and there was never any pressure to hire them, and I didn't feel like any one of them would be treated as a god if hired. They were pretty universally above average though.

They were also not "walking in to captain" anything. They were applying for standard engineering jobs. Think of an average individual-contributor software engineer from, say, Facebook. Is a smaller company really going to hire them as Director Of Engineering (a totally different job than software engineering), just because of the company name on the resume? That sounds absurd.

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Re:“I've had to relearn coding to get through the new interv... by Godel_unicode on Saturday December 05, 2020 @02:15AM (#25312535)

The amount of osmosis learning of how things should be that comes from working somewhere that things were that way is hard to explain. The density of good ideas you get exposed to has a huge effect, even if you aren't in leadership. It also doesn't necessarily come across in interviews, it's reflexes you might not realize you have.

I was very skeptical about this, then I worked for one. Now I get it.

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Re:“I've had to relearn coding to get through the new interv... by imtringued on Saturday December 05, 2020 @03:05AM (#25312750)

I'm not in a leading role but I did "impactful" things like introduce CI to a company. I'm not sure that it matters what position you have, because if you are the first one doing something you actually get to do a lot of decision making.

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