I feel the whole interview process is unfair on the candidate especially with big companies like Google, Facebook who think that given they have the demand, they can do whatever. The following are the issues I’ve experienced: 1. Why don’t companies train their employees on how to take interviews. I just had a Google interview and the interviewer asked a question which was already asked in the previous round and this same interviewer didn’t have a fallback question. For someone who has worked there for 8 years, how can you not have a backup question? As a candidate, I am forced to spend more with the same company and interview again. How is this fair on the candidate? 2. Candidates are never given retries if they don’t come prepared or don’t perform in an interview. However, the interviewer is allowed to come under-prepared, not speak anything in the interview and let the candidate talk and find out everything ( even the input to the algorithm they have to code), solve it in less than 45 mins with the most optimal solution. How is this fair on the candidate? The minimum that the interviewer can do is come prepared. Adding salt to the injury, they get to judge you based on how you perform when they can’t do their due diligence. Something has to change. This cant continue. Many of us like me have lost golden chances because of diabolical interviewing experience like these. TC: 240k YOE: 6 years
Preaching to the choir brother. Would like it to be changed but it wont
yeah there s a very popular thread where people come in and complain abt the Google interview process. It is what it is. Like you said as long as they have demand
FB has interview training and interviewers are required to shadow before interviewing. They do a better job than any company I've been with before.
for all the shit Amzn gets here, my recruiters and interviewers at Amazon have also been extremely professional.
I'm of two minds about Amazon. I think every interview I've had with Amazon has been has run smoothly and they always have solid and different technical questions. On the other hand, Amazon does a horrible job at behavioral questions. Expecting people to list off leadership qualities feels really pointless.
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Well, we had somebody take interview the next day they joined. Interviewers are not even required to take any trainings and can ask whatever. This is OCI BTW, that person’s boss should be fired.