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 …
My favorite bogus recruiter screen question was "order the these operations by latency". Answer on sheet was 20 years out of date.
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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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I got asked this exact question by a Google recruiter a few months ago.
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@xlerb let me guess, recruiters claiming local disk faster than LAN? I love that one -
SSD local disks, possibly.
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i have had an X11 question that confused server and client. (Some random company)
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And agree, this question was created when perl was the most popular scripting language still :)
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Think this was the SRE order of machine operations question there is no prescreen for general SWE candidates
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there is a Quora thread that was more up to date as of 5 years ago.
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painful; I yearn for science recruiting (I have an MS in cell bio & was a scientist) | sorry for the subpar recruiting experiences.
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