Do FAANG SE's have to do coding interviews when taking jobs elsewhere?
I worked at a startup where our senior devs gave job applicants coding interviews. One applicant worked at Netflix and refused to do the coding interview saying her career spoke for itself. It seemed a little conceited but at the same time I kind of agreed. Is this normal?
A missing red carpet upset her.
Not normal. Just because someone is from fang does not mean they are good. Even at Google there’s some dead wood. I would pass on such a person for IC role.
I'm starting to look for a new job now and I'm expecting all decent companies to ask me coding questions.
It’s ridiculous. It doesn’t matter how great the person is .. they have to go through the company interview process.. even if the interview process sounds stupid...if someone refuse to go through the process, then it’s a red flag to hire and manage such type of persons.. good luck managing them..
Does your company pay more than fang? If the candidate makes way more tc than your senior engineers, then yeah, you guys don’t have the credentials to ask that person to go through an entire loop.
Only if they agree to get down-leveled
I think the only folks that get to skip traditional interviews are people that contribute heavily to open source, or have prior programming experience with the people interviewing them.
Yes. I may skip a coding project, if someone has a public portfolio of code that we can review instead, but that goes for anyone. There is nothing special about FAANG. In fact, the opposite, they can afford to hire bad devs.
Not sure why would someone with extensive portfolio and/or open source contributions ever want to skip coding interviews. The interview is usually easier than the actual job.
Lmao.