Re:Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job?
by kyawzazaw on Friday April 16, 2021 @01:12AM
(#26829766)
I was asked about my previous internship work experience from my resume by Point72, Salesforce, Google, Addepar, Okta, Iterable, Visa, Veritas from my resume during my interviews.
Re:Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job?
by ma2rten on Friday April 16, 2021 @09:24AM
(#26833556)
I work at Google (the only FAANG company in your list). We would ask about it, but it's not a significant deciding factor.
It might be a deciding factor if you get an interview at all, which team you are interviewing with and for which level. Those decisions are made by recruiters, not interviewers or hiring committees.
Re:Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job?
by ep103 on Friday April 16, 2021 @11:40AM
(#26835237)
And a recruiter is not really looking at your resume as anything other than a wordlist with which to shotgun applicants that might earn him/her commission into the process. And then the engineering team just jumps to leetcode. What's so easy to go missing here is the step where the person is interviewed, as a person, by someone who is not a recruiter or equivalent HR screener, and is technically skilled enough to understand the resume. Ya know, in a word, a good manager.
Re:Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job?
by infinite8s on Friday April 16, 2021 @02:00PM
(#26837148)
I don't think internal recruiters (what I believe the GP was referring to) get paid a commission.
Re:Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job?
by kyawzazaw on Friday April 16, 2021 @03:27PM
(#26838076)
depends on firms and their work contracts and definition of "internal recruiters"
Re:Ask HN: How can a unhireable person get a job?
by lhorie on Friday April 16, 2021 @01:25AM
(#26829851)
I definitely read resumes (and ask about it). While it's not the sole criteria for hiring/not hiring, I think it says a lot about the candidate.
When I was a hiring manager, I specifically designed an interview process that procured me candidates that were great devs that didn't do well in leetcode style interviews, and as a result was able to hire a much better team than I should have been able to at my budget level. We did this, by doing no-brainer things like, actually reading the resumes.
But good hiring practices are hard to scale. Reading a resume or a person is difficult to teach. But a minimally competent leetcode style interview session can be run with some success by most engineers, so it scales. Which means it worked great for some quickly growing tech companies with large amounts of cash and little need to filter questionable resume lists (usually because their name brands guaranteed high level quality applicants). This then became a fad as every company copied the name brand engineering company without wondering if their hiring process had the same constraints as name-brand co, and is now what the industry thinks is 'the one true way.;