Comment by Aeolun
3 years ago
The backlash is the same as the one against standardized testing methods in school. People that don’t fit the mold of the testing method will fail regardless of how competent they are at their actual job.
It’s good you like that I suppose, but it sounds absolutely bonkers to me.
> don’t fit the mold of the testing method will fail regardless of how competent they are at their actual job.
The mold being answering questions about their supposed area of expertise.
I think people really like to claim that they are misunderstood geniuses who just don't fit the mold of being able to answer questions about the things they know. I have no doubt that such people exist, but I would not want to scrap an evaluation system simply because it doesn't catch every possible person, more important to me is keeping bad people out.
> keeping bad people out
you seem very confident about that. In my experience LC/FAANG style interview don't keep bad people out.
Do they keep all bad people out? No.
But I have never encountered a company that doesn't have a on-the-spot technical interview (involving coding or math) that has had more success keeping bad engineers out than FAANG.
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