Re:Software engineering interview questions
by jghn on Tuesday December 23, 2014 @06:07PM
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Exactly. This is one of the largest failures of the tech industry when it comes to interviews. They see the current tech behemoth and extrapolate their hiring practices, but the reality is that those companies are fitting their models to a different set of data than 99.9% of the other companies in the world.
When you're a household name and most engineers view your company as a top place to go and you're getting thousands of resumes a day, you have the ability to filter differently than most folks.
The downside to the methods Google etc use is they have a huge number of false negatives. They reject tons of great engineers. This works out well when you constantly have thousands of great engineers applying to work for your company.
It does not work well at all if you are a normal company.