Re:Don't Leak Interview Questions
by georgemcbay on Saturday November 09, 2013 @01:38PM
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I have a lot of the same qualms shared by many of the responses so far in regard to how unrepresentative to real world work the typical whiteboard coding interview is.
But even if I didn't, what's the point of asking such a large group of people not to leak questions, especially when those most put off by your interview style (for whatever reason) have the most motive to leak your questions?
At best you'll be ignored, laughed at a bit and people doing what you're asking them not to do will continue doing it. At worst (and IMO the more likely outcome) you'll end up with a variant of the Streisand effect where even more people leak just because you asked everyone not to.
In closing, I guess I will mention how odd it seems to me that "startups" (granted, Airbnb being a startup anymore is debatable) are all "pivot this, disrupt this, change the system", and then complain when an interview style that was already old and busted in 1970s isn't working out for them in this new Internet world.
But even if I didn't, what's the point of asking such a large group of people not to leak questions, especially when those most put off by your interview style (for whatever reason) have the most motive to leak your questions?
At best you'll be ignored, laughed at a bit and people doing what you're asking them not to do will continue doing it. At worst (and IMO the more likely outcome) you'll end up with a variant of the Streisand effect where even more people leak just because you asked everyone not to.
In closing, I guess I will mention how odd it seems to me that "startups" (granted, Airbnb being a startup anymore is debatable) are all "pivot this, disrupt this, change the system", and then complain when an interview style that was already old and busted in 1970s isn't working out for them in this new Internet world.