Comment by topher6345
11 years ago
In my office, opinions are 50/50 on this.
Interview with Lazlo Bock on Google's hiring practices:
http://youarenotsosmart.com/2015/06/08/yanss-051-how-google-...
Some of the claims Lazlo makes:
As large organizations grow, their workforce trends towards mediocrity. Google * takes special care to counter-act this effect. * researches their hiring/interviewing practices just as much as their machine learning. * publishes their methodologies: https://www.workrules.net/
The algorithm in question is discussed in Coding Interviews by Harry He. http://www.apress.com/9781430247616
I feel the original tweet conveyed a bad attitude, was emotional, reactionary, and ultimately a bad career move on the part of OP.
In my younger days I suspect I would have done something similar. I'd like to think I would see the experience as a learning opportunity and be able to react with humility and maturity, but who knows? Hopefully I can think of OP and not tap the tweet button.
Wow.
Really? Pretty much everyone recognizes that google style interviews weed out perfectly good people. What Max went through is just an example of one such obvious case. It's very much a case of the google hiring algo failing. Lot's of people would have no doubt that Max can cut it when it comes to iOS dev.
That's all it is. Now, if you are going to read "tweet conveyed a bad attitude, was emotional, reactionary," into a perfectly human tweet, holy crap you are judgmental.
>> ultimately a bad career move on the part of OP.
Not at all. I've done a lot of interviews and basically none of them required us trawling twitter. I think it would have to be something pretty heinous for me to not hire someone based on their social media crap. Definitely not something as mundane as this. This sort of hilarious cowardice about expressing feelings just makes me angry. At what point do we stop acting like these trivial, humanizing glimpses into a person are somethign that is a bad career move?