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by friendlygrammar
3556 days ago
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>But increasingly, it seems like the real cream of the crop are saying "companies that run these kinds of interviews are too rigid for me to be willing to work for them". I do not believe this for a second. The real cream of the crop comes into these interviews, passes them with ease and sometimes even enjoy the process. The worst companies I've seen had low hiring standards, they let any fool join the company and then that fool will go on to interview other fools and lets them join. It's like a cancer and rejecting a few potentially good candidates is worth preventing it. |
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I have been hired at both G and MS. In my tenure at both, my connects (performance reviews) have been stellar (you'll have to take my word on that, unfortunately).
At the risk of saying something I should never associate with my professional profile, I have also been rejected at both, in combination ~5 times to the 2 I was accepted. (both prior and post my acceptances at each place).
I reasonably consider myself to be a "good engineer" in a pragmatic, "you pay me money to make your company money" sort of way, however, I would not say I pass the interview process with ease or enjoy it; and would VERY MUCH say the process puts me off interviewing for companies I know behave this way instead of just waiting for a prior coworker who trusts my output to say "hey we need someone"; those latter arrangements have historically worked out far better in the long run for me given both outcomes and ROI of time spent in the process.
While I certainly welcome that I am either a fraud or an outlier, the fact that I've heard similar stories from coworkers I see as very high end engineers allows me to assert at least that this occurs (interviews putting off good candidates) although not necessarily how much.
The fact of the matter for me, at the end of the day, is the common lament: if the interview (and when it is) even VAGUELY about what we do day to day, I will surf without blinking, with the exception of the occasional "culture fit" rejection which I've come to accept in stride, but between those rejections and the sheer volume of "I clearly don't want to be interviewing today so going to make this hellish/I expect a magic question to a problem I prepared ahead of time" that I've seen, it seems divorced from reality that such an often arbitrary and painful process wouldn't put people off it. I recently likened it to be most similar to what it used to feel like to ask out someone in middle school, when you felt somewhat clueless despite your best effort, with low chance of success and high chance of shameful failure.