anyone else out there give super gentle interviews?
if someone gets me as their interviewer they are super lucky because i, like many on blind, feel that the LC arms race is silly, and so i try to be extra fair and reasonable to candidates. if they seem reasonable and easy to work with, i’ll probably pass, that simple. and my overall pass right is likewise quite high, definitely above average. curious if others think this way
Hope my interviewer is like you. He gave me a LC hard with 30mins remaining. Solved as much as I can and this is the only round went bad in my loop. 🤞🏻
If you go easy on your interview, your team or whichever team you recruit for may suffer down the road. Do remember that people behaviors can be faked during interviews, based your judgement purely on that is naive LC is certainly no perfect way of measuring candidates capabilities but we don’t have a more objective and practical alternative.
OP has the luxury that here, interviewers are generally separate from the hiring team, unlike many other companies where your interviewers would be the prospective team. So you can pass someone in their interviews and never meet or interact with them.
There's zero evidence LC performance is indicative of job performance. I don't know why you think a person who passes a light LC interview will be a liability. It's in no way objective. How did you come up with that conclusion? How is it objective when some people get easy questions and some people get 2 hards back to back? Going hard during an LC interview is hazing at this point. You introduce your biases and try to favor certain types of people. You're not doing any favors to your team. Coding is no rocket science. All the stuff about getting "signals" during LC interviews are not backed by data. If somebody passes an LC hard interview, that most likely means they solved a similar problem in the past. Nothing more.
They probably still fail from other interviews or not enough signal from yours
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That’s very kind of you! I’m sure when OP says gentle they mean just simply reasonable and not hand it on a plate. I think getting a reasonable interviewer is such a luck. Thanks for being one
I keep the bar high but not via LC problems than can be studied for. I ask questions that are role-specific and bespoke to exactly what the candidate will need to be an expert in.
totally fair, and i know DB tends to have more tailored interview style so yeah
The senior the interviewer is, the more gentle he gets.
Where’s “LC hard edge cases covered no bugs first try or jail” option?
Except for interviewers from a specific race, most interviewers I’ve had have been quite reasonable and easy going. My pass rate as an interviewer is quite high too.
Which race?
I’m sure I’m not the only one who faces this. Should be easy to guess
When I was at Google I used to give very easy interviews and grade very leniently. I'd also give a lot of hints. Oftentimes I'm the only pass out of all the interviewers. When I would have to give a no pass decision, I was always hesitant but invariably all the other interviewers gave a worse grade. I started getting scheduled for a lot of interviews I think because recruiters noticed my stats to pass candidates. I don't know why some get off on giving hardcore interview questions or trying to trip up the candidate.
God bless you :P