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I am begging companies to test out their interview questions, especially the coding tests, on their own senior people as calibration, before using them as a gauge for hiring new folks. An awful lot of them are functionally just random-number generators.
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Erin Catto · 36w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqykddq7nmfd8cd0hupl8fnsmmuhtg55zusm6de4fjecmrhsx4x97qs0t3wn What if some senior people cannot answer some basic questions? Awkward.
Very Human Robot · 36w
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Tom Forsyth · 36w
Like - I get the "we're just testing basic skills" to spot people who are essentially lying. Fine, so make the test literally trivial. Read some numbers, find their mean, done. Or there's the "we want something to start a conversation". OK, so don't have an actual answer (or at least not one that i...