| Lot of poorly thought out stuff here, I suspect the author is young and lacks real world experience running a business. > If 10x engineers truly exist, why do pay scales intra company not cover a 10x spectrum? The value you produce presents a cap on how much you can earn, not a floor. If you want to capture that value you need leverage, high end SWEs usually don't have that leverage. The statement is wrong anyway, at companies like Google, pay ranges from 200k-10million+. > Interviews will transition to be more real-world scenarios, perhaps within the customer's actual codebase Many good companies already do this, it doesn't actually change the interviews that much. All interview questions my company has are taken straight from the codebase - the end result is a standard system design + leetcode style interview because we actually need to solve these problems somewhat regularly. Other options listed that lengthen the interview process from the current 6-8 hour standard are off the table at any companies targeting top of market talent who won't put up with longer than standard interviews (makes it hard to get companies to compete for the interviewee). Companies not targeting top of market talent will almost always ape top of market won't adapt because they are not generally tech first and thus simply want to adopt "industry best practices". The organizational incentives to do this are incredibly strong. Small tech-first startups are usually the only ones who can muster the organization will to do something more original recruiting wise but will necessarily stay a small part of the market. > Interview performance (at least for those hired) definitely does not correlate with on-the-job performance Citation needed, every company I've seen try to do a large scale assessment of this has found that interview performance is positively correlated with on-the job performance[0]. (I've seen some actual data + studies, but not sure any of them are fully public). What does the author have to offer against this? I'd encourage the author to think much more about the incentive structures of the actors involved here and try coming to some new (more interesting) conclusions. [0] https://rework.withgoogle.com/guides/hiring-use-structured-i.... |
Ugh I can’t find the original source but this concept comes from a 2013 study from Google? Finding old stuff on the internet is hard. https://www.quora.com/Is-there-a-link-between-job-interview-...