Tell HN: Stop Accepting Shitty Interviews
There was a long discussion on HN the other day regarding why companies are having trouble hiring engineers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29892437 One of the recurring themes is the "leet code" interviews. I will go further and say that any interview that doesn't mimic the job is a guaranteed way for me to turn the company down. Stop accepting shitty interviews When I was talking to trading firms about coming back to the finance industry, about half of them admitted they already use my open-source software. And yet, only one firm bothered to ask me about how some of my stuff was implemented. That's the firm I'm working at now. Instead, I got plenty of firms that still insisted on asking me questions that are not remotely related to the job. Tons of Hacker Rank and Codility, even though I've never had a time limit when building somethin
Why it failed
There was a long discussion on HN the other day regarding why companies are having trouble hiring engineers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29892437 One of the recurring themes is the "leet code" interviews. I will go further and say that any interv
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- chrisaycock
- Ended
- 2022
- Source
- hackernews