Being a statistics major, it's natural to desire a data analyst position. I was emailed about a recruiter interview and was asked to give time slots. I did, but the recruiting lady did not respond. I emailed the recruiting lead then was told by the recruiter that she "missed" my email and scheduled after a week. It appeared no one knew the interview process for this position as I would be told the next step, but then have it switched because it was not the next step.
First there was a recruiter lead intervie...
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Software Engineer Interviews just suck
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Updated at Feb 08 2020 at 03:10 UTC
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Arenanet Data Analyst Interview
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Facebook Production Engineer Interview
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I was asked to send my resume in March/April-ish? Fast forward to the recruiter interview in April.
She asked me standard questions related to experience and interests. I stated I was more interested in statistics programming based positions and so she wanted to cut off here and refer me to the team of data analysts, but I said no I'm interested in this position. Let's just say I suck at selling my interest when she asked me to 'convince her of my interest,' but she gave me the benefit of a doubt, I assume, ... -
Software Engineering Interviews are Arbitrary
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You have likely have read about issues with software engineering interviews before and are reading yet another one! Well, I'm going to talk more about my experience in going through the motions.
For now, here is a 1 hour talk by a guy named Moishe about interviewing.
In the video he mentions that there was an experiment done with a hiring committee where their future self would reject the past selves. Probably a good thing as things do not stay the same, but at what point should one say that this candida...
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Trust in Software Engineering Interviews tend to be misplaced.
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https://medium.com/@iwaninzurich/why-software-engineers-dont-get-jobs-three-horror-stories-77fd1ae3b875 - This post was written by a recruiter who knows his shit. This is the kind of recruiter to hire.
First Horror-Story in that post was that the "Candidate rejected because of 'wrong' framework." Lol, terrible interviewer. What is "wrong" about using different tools to do your work. Was it enforced that the interviewee use a specific framework? What made it wrong?
Interviewer says "over-engineered" code, but ...
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Piece on the Archaic Misbelief around Giving Feedback to Interview Candidates
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http://blog.interviewing.io/no-engineer-has-ever-sued-a-company-because-of-constructive-post-interview-feedback-so-why-dont-employers-do-it/
^ What he said
Maybe the best recruiters are the ones who have been Software Engineers before. Maybe it is a bias on my part. The blog posts around their experiences are gold.
Companies need to do better at giving feedback or they really should not expect candidates to give any feedback when asked.
P.S. I am not interviewing anywhere currently. Busy creating my own product...