Re:Working at a Startup vs. a Big Company
by alex_lod on Monday March 12, 2012 @11:31AM
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I'd hire you if you were a good engineer but not a good interviewee :). My hope would be that a good interviewer can see through an interview in the same way that a good teacher gives good grades to good students, not good test takers.
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If you can tell that a bad interviewee is a good engineer, you've cracked the elusive interview code that everyone has been trying to figure out for decades.
A teacher has an ongoing relationship with a student, so time is on their side. An interview is the opposite.
Hiring a good engineer that is a bad interviewee is the responsibility of the interviewer. A sufficiently good interviewer should be able to pull the necessary info out of a bad interviewee.