[Apocryphon]

Question for hiring managers and employers:

In Silicon Valley, tech interviewing has become an arms race between applicants cramming to pass tech screens and interviews, and employers coming up with new routines. Sites like Glassdoor and CareerCup are loaded with interview questions that have appeared in those routines, giving savvy interviewees the opportunity to see the questions on the exam and prepare accordingly.

How do you feel about the existence of these sites, and do they affect how interviews are conducted?

[shaftway]

As an interviewer I don't really care. A good candidate doesn't need them, and a poor candidate isn't helped by them. The only thing that's irritating to me is that they actually burn interview questions. Once a question is seen on an external job board it gets banned as an interview question.

[Frost1x]

In the current interview structure, I don't think that's inherently a bad policy. It forces interviewers to develop new unique questions and hopefully, while doing so, consider the cognative time and complexity the solution took them before deciding to hand it to an interviewee.

This also discourages overly complex or overly familiarized questions. If the question is too complex, chances are it will end up posted online soon after, penalizing the interviewer in time cost. If a new question is recycled frequently, it will also likely end up online at some point and penalize interviewers from using questions they're overly familiar/biased in assessment to based on their own rote learning.