Comment by whimsicalism
3 years ago
> 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.
You can implement all kind of interview processes, you will always end up hiring candidates that turns out to be not a good fit.
I am arguing that LC/FAANG interview does not do a better job at filtering them out.
The solution: accept that you will do bad hiring, but that you will let them go as well.
Instead, everyone want to be politically correct and the play safe. So people are hardly let go.
Also working at FAANG implying you are a stellar swe is a big time BS.
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