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Re:Caltech's CS interview prep course by urthor on Sunday February 27, 2022 @11:37PM (#30496467)
I guess the question is, what's the proportion either side?

Is it 25% will do it properly, 75% don't? Am I too cynical about tech interviews, or too optimistic?

I'd also add, for a couple of companies, Google's approach springs to mind.

I think for places where, you know, they do search algorithms, knowing how to print the spanning tree of a graph is probably an important thing to know.

Re:Caltech's CS interview prep course by lhorie on Monday February 28, 2022 @01:24AM (#30496955)
My understanding is that googlers typically don't know/care what role the candidate is applying for (outside of maybe the hiring manager round). There are arguments both for and against their methodology.

Personally I think there's a strong correlation between necessity and hiring quality (i.e. if teams really need the help, they typically engage candidates more meaningfully than the Google-style clinically impartial methodology)

Re:Caltech's CS interview prep course by urthor on Monday February 28, 2022 @07:54PM (#30507626)
That makes sense.

Sounds a bit like what my old timer buddy says.

Google's KPI is hiring talent away from competitors who physically live in the San Francisco bay area. And the ads/ML teams that they drench in their 1%ers.

Everyone else is window dressing.