Why tech job interviews became such a nightmare

Re:Why tech job interviews became such a nightmare by pc86 on Thursday March 07, 2024 @09:01AM (#39629150)

And then when you try to design an interview process that mimics the conditions on the ground you get people decrying it (sometimes rightly, sometimes wrongly) as too hard, or too long, or whatever.

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Re:Why tech job interviews became such a nightmare by red-iron-pine on Thursday March 07, 2024 @01:23PM (#39632632)

"ive been in the industry 15 years, doing this shit is an immediate no!"

then you try to get them to explain TCP/IP or fix a for-loop and they're stumped.

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Re:Why tech job interviews became such a nightmare by neumann on Thursday March 07, 2024 @07:10PM (#39636194)

So this. We always give realworld actual mini 'regular day at the office' assignments, and it was a great filter. We ended up giving it a lot because people would ghost or give up after days of (fundamentally bad) work, then the right candidate would arrive and nail it in hours.

We had recruiters tell us not to do tech interviews, nobody likes them, etc, but our team was so strong for it.

And really, we were mostly testing generics. Use stack overflow by all means, but just know what you are copying and how to modify it!

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