Re:Microsoft comes under blistering criticism for “grossly i...
by derefr on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @09:46PM
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> Come to think of it... what the heck is it about these FAANG companies?
Mostly: hiring people for perceived "talent" over actual engineering skills (especially engineering soft skills.)
Imagine interviewers highlighting someone's CV because they've won Putnam math competitions, while round-filing some other CVs because "they write Haskell/Erlang/Rust/etc on some hobby project, and so they might try to push for it at work and then burn out when they find out we won't do it here."
Now imagine the people hired by a process like that, going on to hire other people, and so on.
> I bet I'm just meeting the duds.
That too. In a big org, nobody with "real shit to do" is going to spend time interviewing. They're going to push that off on someone whose time can be wasted. Which means company culture gets decided by a bunch of people whose time isn't worth anything...
Mostly: hiring people for perceived "talent" over actual engineering skills (especially engineering soft skills.)
Imagine interviewers highlighting someone's CV because they've won Putnam math competitions, while round-filing some other CVs because "they write Haskell/Erlang/Rust/etc on some hobby project, and so they might try to push for it at work and then burn out when they find out we won't do it here."
Now imagine the people hired by a process like that, going on to hire other people, and so on.
> I bet I'm just meeting the duds.
That too. In a big org, nobody with "real shit to do" is going to spend time interviewing. They're going to push that off on someone whose time can be wasted. Which means company culture gets decided by a bunch of people whose time isn't worth anything...