Re:How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?
by mathiaspoint on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @05:45PM
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Interviewing really is a distinct skill from contributing and the more people crank it the more it seems to test for interview ability.
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Re:How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?
by skeeter2020 on Friday July 04, 2025 @10:59AM
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I suspect (and have seen some evidence) that the interviews he aced were algo-based. Doing well in these is very repeatable, with low additional effort. Behavioural are much harder to do at scale.
Re:How did Soham Parekh get so many jobs?
by ninetyninenine on Sunday July 06, 2025 @03:05AM
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IQ tests are also distinct skills but IQ scores are the most quantifiable and studied numbers in all of psychology and correlate with all kinds of things like job performance.
I think the purpose of the interview is the same thing. Even though there's no strong evidence for a correlation it's reasonable to believe intuitively that there is.