Re:My Startup Job Interview
by reikonomusha on Thursday September 19, 2013 @11:39AM
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I see what you're saying, but I can provide at least one counterexample. This was on the front page whenever: http://symbo1ics.com/blog/?p=2055
There were loads of interviewee issues that occurred in the article. Hopefully that balances things a little.
Good read. Thanks for that.
edit: HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6243627
Re:My Startup Job Interview
by at-fates-hands on Thursday September 19, 2013 @01:17PM
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When I read stories like these, I don' think of it in terms of the interviewee being a genius and "above" the silly questions they ask them. For me, it's a look inside a company who doesn't have their shit together and doesn't know how to properly interview candidates for the position they're hiring.
See the story of the person who broke down crying at an interview, from last week - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6389293
Re:My Startup Job Interview
by conjectures on Thursday September 19, 2013 @10:51AM
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You've also got to wonder whether what gets voted to front page HN is biased. Could be there's lots of accounts of abject failure out there - just nobody is amused by them.
I know there's a bias here (better engineers are probably more likely to blog in the first place and most people would rather write about an experience where they're the "victor"), but it would be nice to read an article from someone acknowledging their own failure just once.