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Re:Ask HN: What to do about ‘Good at programming Bad at Leet... by karaterobot on Friday May 20, 2022 @04:57PM (#31452413)
Agreed, but I see the impulse to standardize as the source of a lot of the problems people have — by people, I mean both good engineers, and the companies who can't hire them.
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Re:Ask HN: What to do about ‘Good at programming Bad at Leet... by angarg12 on Friday May 20, 2022 @05:18PM (#31452632)
Honest question, how would you handle hiring at FAANG scale without standard processes?

For reference we had an opening in my team and 1600 people applied.

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Re:Ask HN: What to do about ‘Good at programming Bad at Leet... by karaterobot on Friday May 20, 2022 @05:48PM (#31452942)
This process still relied on screening, including technical screens. The biggest difference is that it substituted a day of whiteboard interviews with a day of pairing, which we found to produce better results, and candidates really liked too.
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Re:Ask HN: What to do about ‘Good at programming Bad at Leet... by animalhot on Saturday May 21, 2022 @03:20PM (#31460914)
Apple used to have a per team interview process(don’t know if it has changed). While the interview experience can vary a lot, there are certain pockets/teams that are spectacularly brilliant and have the freedom to maintain the bar & conduct targeted hiring.
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Re:Ask HN: What to do about ‘Good at programming Bad at Leet... by hcrean on Saturday May 21, 2022 @01:41PM (#31460040)
Having 1600 applicants for a SE role is not a unique, but definitely a very niche, problem to have...
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Re:Ask HN: What to do about ‘Good at programming Bad at Leet... by b20000 on Saturday May 21, 2022 @04:54PM (#31461705)
go on linkedin and message the people you think can do the job based on prior work and experience or degrees. trash the rest.
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