[symlinkk]

So only people who have slick enough social skills to bullshit their way through that will get hired. The quiet unassuming engineer who spend their free time programming will get passed on and the extroverted engineer who spent their free time partying will get hired.

[jross225]

Lol, no.

1. That is a very deterministic statement 2. This is a part of the process, not the entire process. There are still technical elements tested during the interview. 3. The signal that they are looking for, but do not tell candidates, is a story about overcoming obstacles.

What I will say about the lifestory, is that it aligns with the skillset required to do well in a corporate environment. Namely telling stories, being relatively interesting, and having some ability to sell yourself and your accomplishments (in addition to being technically competent which is tested elsewhere).

[symlinkk]

“Yeah, we see here that you developed your own machine learning framework in your free time. That’s great and all, but jross225 didn’t find you interesting enough, so we’re going to have to pass, sorry.”

[amrocha]

If you developed an ML framework in your free time and can't tell a compelling story about it in 45 minutes then I probably don't want to work with you either

[the_only_law]

As if “corporate environment” and “interesting people” are remotely compatible.

[Eumenes]

Yeah sounds like a BS "Values" interview ... hard pass

[drowsspa]

For all I know, "culture fit" means "personality clones". HR seems to love that.