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Re:Caltech's CS interview prep course by rtlfe on Sunday February 27, 2022 @06:58PM (#30494243)
> If you just go through a bachelors CS curriculum, designed to give a survey of all topics in academic computer science, that wouldn't make you a competent engineer.

True, but it's probably not a worse predictor than most interviews.

Re:Caltech's CS interview prep course by hnfong on Monday February 28, 2022 @12:29PM (#30502436)
It's not the interview that counts but the interviewer (or, in some degenerate cases, the "hiring committee").

A good interviewer can assess a candidate's competence even with crappy questions / question bank. A bad interviewer will often make wrong hiring decisions even if they asked good questions.