About 100 interviews completed, tech screens only. Didn’t expect so many questions, answered as much possible. Most popular questions: - screen pass rate about 5% - biggest mistake is jumping to code right away - I don’t mentor and don’t do mock interviews YOE: 15 TC: 545
What’s the biggest mistake interviewees make? Do you weigh a complete solution heaviest? Or is there more weight to communication and following a thought process?
What is the pass rate to get into the onsite interview?
About 5% in my experience
Damn that’s low af and the tech screens aren’t even that hard
What’s your favorite question to ask? Don’t have to give away the exact question, but roughly the type (graph, DP, etc)
I like questions that are easy to understand and argue about, and something you could see in real life. I don’t really use graphs or DP in my work, so I don’t ask those
yeah right, i did that once and i was told ,my the hiring committee not to ask these questions
What’s the cringiest thing that’s ever happened in an interview?
What are most effective strategies to prepare for coding and ml system design
Treat interviewing as a special skill, practice at smaller companies you don’t care about.
To practice at small companies you have to first het interviews from those companies. It’s ridiculous out there. I would live to do more interviews.
What “hints” do you give people to let them know they are fucking up?
A candidate could communicate very clearly and has a really great real world experience resume. It was obvious it wasn’t their day and but according to your rubric is a no hire. Do you make personal discretions.
Who does resume screening?
Recruiting sourcers. I wish they did better job honestly and save everyone time
the problem is recruiters are not engineers, therefore they can easily be gamed by coders. if you want them to do a better job, you’d have to hire recruiters with engineering backgrounds. that’s expensive so it wouldn’t happen. you get what you pay for
People with 15+ yrs experience who are not developers also go with coding exercises? It’s pseudo code or compile it during interviews.
Depends on the role they’re applying to. If it’s L4/5/6 IC then yes, you need to code real thing
So aim of hiring is find bunch of coders who can develop product but no real world users experience? Just code what is assigned? Why I am asking is I see lots of crap products from googl/amzn/msft specially in cloud tech.
List or gtfo
Stack or gtfo
Heap or gtfo