[HN Gopher] Coding Interviews Are BS (largely)
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       Coding Interviews Are BS (largely)
        
       Author : coscreen
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2021-11-09 18:44 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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       | coscreen wrote:
       | Jason Thomas here, CTO at CoScreen. Deep inside I had always
       | suspected coding interviews were in large part bullshit.
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       | Originally I based my ambitions on the collective wisdom of the
       | Internet (what could go wrong?), and of course looked towards the
       | FANG interview process, and especially Google.
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       | I was the first full-time engineer hired at the video
       | interviewing pioneer HireVue, and have a decade of experience in
       | the HR and interviewing technology space. This experience made me
       | a firm believer in the structured interview. Line up a set of
       | candidates, give them a set of standard questions in a structured
       | fashion and look for genius in the answer of routine questions.
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       | What could be fairer and more organized than lining up candidates
       | one by one, question by question, rating each, and just hiring
       | the best rated out of all?
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       | Read my post for what I learned and how to set up a truly fair
       | and objective interviewing framework.
        
       | m0llusk wrote:
       | Possibly the best analysis of this I have yet seen is the video
       | Why our generals were most successful in World War II that in
       | Korea, Vietnam or Iraq/Afghanistan:
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AxZWxxZ2JGE
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       | Essentially, the answer is the hiring methodology. If someone
       | seemed like a best fit for a job then they were hired. They then
       | had two weeks to demonstrate basic functional capacity and six
       | weeks to make significant progress. If at any point things did
       | not work out then they were immediately dismissed and replaced
       | with someone else. The high rate of this process meant that there
       | were always open opportunities even for those who had been
       | dismissed from other positions, so things worked out for both
       | employers and employees.
        
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