My favorite bogus recruiter screen question was "order the these operations by latency". Answer on sheet was 20 years out of date.
We lost candidates due to recruiter screens like this when I was at Google. Not sure why they persist in doing them http://www.gwan.com/blog/20160405.html …
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We got the question fixed, but our recruiters had been filtering for the literal opposite of what we wanted for years. The opposite. Years.
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Whenever I hear "we can't lower the bar" I find at least one laughable filter in the process; often the literal opposite of what they want.
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The HN comments have Google employees who claim it's implausible this ever happened to anyone, along with employee who says it's common.
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Plus many people who claim similar experiences. Funny how often "works for me" turns into "couldn't possibly have not worked for anyone".
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BTW, policy mandated gdocs for phone screens. Code editors like coderpad, stypi, etc., weren't allowed. I wonder if that's changed.
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On the bright side, at least it's better than the Amazon intake process! https://rajk.me/amazon-interview-experience/ …pic.twitter.com/7feWbU9w86
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Round 2. In round 3, you join a replication of the Milgram obedience experiment. J/k, R3 is the job; it only looks like a Milgram experimentpic.twitter.com/tAhg6zIPzZ
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This is what happens when I refer someone to Microsoft without also forwarding them to a specific hiring manager http://moderndescartes.com/essays/my_ml_path …pic.twitter.com/cY0M5cv7Wm
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@cynicalsecurity this is why having non-technical recruiters screen technical candidates is foolhardy at best, and harmful at worst. -
how many "technical" technical recruiters are in these jobs, are in the industry? More than 0.1%?
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personally, I love working with ppl. If recruiting paid well & let me do occasional projects, I'd do it.
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and I would probably prefer to work with you thereby. Not sure if there's room in the field for that tho
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just imagine how much better off companies would be if it DID have such a role. Ah, dreams...
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start your own agency! But then you'll get successful and have to hire ppl and then it's back to square one ;)
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I'm not real keen on the entrepreneur spirit, but I'm always offering to help with recruitment at my current employer. -
"Help us @andMYcode, you're our only hope."
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hacker news seems strangely divided over whether he's mischaracterizing well-known SRE questions & others who got same bad wording.
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A lot of these are SRE questions (e.g. SYN-ACK, typical followup is SYN cookies), but recruiters can be bad at asking
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they link to glassdoor and other places which have the actual question's wording and those versions are non-insane though.
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or so they say; I didn't actually follow the links because I don't have any actual stake in this mess asnot a current-or-ex-googler.
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I didn't go to hacker news because it's full of content from people who post on hacker news
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I just wanted some kind of sanity check on it, and they pointed out the griper here is... perhaps not exactly a trustworthy sort.
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I got that from "our own post-quantum cryptography"
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The g-wan web server makes some interesting performance claims too, though it does actually work at least.
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