[BaiRado]

Funnily enough, this response is exactly what someone who succeeded under this model would say.

This all seems like nonsense coming from individuals who are (understandably or not) frustrated that others would suggest that their success was only due to an interview process that aligned with their strengths, rather than their obviously superior skill and intellect.

[psully]

I don't think I would be considered a "success" under this model as I never passed a tough interview and currently work at company you will never hear of. I simply have no desire to justify my skills by talking others down and pretending I'm too good for companies that reject me.

I'm not sure how this is a valid rebuttal to my comment since it addresses none of the point I made. Do you really think the secret sauce to getting into highly competitive jobs is by incoherently speed running through algorithm questions?

[BaiRado]

I just took your first and last sentences and had some fun with it.

That way of interviewing is good, because it weeds out people who don't prepare and thus might be lazy or just looking for an easy paycheck. But it also tends to confuse good memory of technical and abstract questions as competence, and if you're not careful you'll end up with a lot of copy pasted humans that are really good at inverting binary trees, but suck at everything else. Also people who have already passed it tend to hold on to it as pride, and might fail an otherwise amazing candidate, just because of a failure on a question that has no practical use outside of a textbook. Those are my thoughts on it, and I'd wager the thoughts of many others who are critical of the model.

> Do you really think the secret sauce to getting into highly competitive jobs is by incoherently speed running through algorithm questions?

No, the real secret sauce is having a friend or relative on the inside. If you don't have that it's a gamble most of the time imo.

[esyir]

On the flipside, you can say something similar about your response regardless of your actual position.

What you've basically told him is: "Your experience is false, you're just biased and whatever your success was is a lie."

[BaiRado]

Yes. Thank you for explaining my comment to me, and you're completely right, but you missed the part where my comment was based on his first and last sentences only going the other way around. It did seem a bit dismissive and condescending at the time so I had some fun with it.