I'm starting to wonder if design interviews are not only useless, but actually contributors to poor design. I'm still thinking through this, by my reasoning for this is:
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I extend this to all technical interviews - they're an elaborate charade that adds nothing. May as well just filter applicants by resume+experience, randomly sample them and have one F-F interview (non technical) to check they're not impossible to work with.
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Also a lot of Fermi Estimate questions about domains are also brokenhttps://twitter.com/hillelogram/status/1145135796464357377 …
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I'd love to get your answers 1-N. In the past, I've tried to make "design" problems that omit key details so that a "right" answer must ask for more information and challenge the problem. No idea if it works, but I'd like to think that your answers are a core part of design.
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I think problems that omit key details may be tough to communicate well to other interviewers. Occasionally I end up in exchanges like "So you're asking me how this service should handle the situation where this service is not working?" "Yes."
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Agree with this but isn’t the real problem the fact that they threw out answers 1-4 not that they asked the wrong question? Build vs buy is a real thing and ignoring it makes the question leading and contrived.
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I do think it’s essential to have a discussion like the one you describe (your 1-4, too) where collectively you exercise listening and high-level technical communication to scope something out at some appropriate level of interesting conversation
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it’s hard to deal with an engineer who failed such a test eager to bring on this new open source solution and that vendor and this thing — and more credentialed than most of the team — but totally unable to get down to brass tacks and describe something fully or ship it
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For me, there is little association between design interviews and actual design. The goal of the interview is establishing expertise. I wouldn't approach design interviews the same way as I approach design, and vice versa. (Ditto for programming.)
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