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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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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The thing when the *engineer* interviews is that you can save the wrong answer by explaining your way of thought and learn a lot
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Yup. I find it totally bonkers that any successful company has recruiters doing "technical" screens.
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Microsoft had become this way by the mid 1990s. Q's like "what's diff between an operator and an operand" appearing in phone screens
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operator rhymes with alligator, operand rhymes with contraband.
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and yet Google is a huge profitable company. It's almost like hiring "The Best of the Best" isn't a requirement for success...
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Solution: Have actual technical folks review candidates. All candidates at
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Worked at a place with similar issues. Interesting thing is we had 3rd party recruiter too since main recruiting team was too small
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what was really interesting was the 3rd party alwats did better at finding good hires. Why? They worked with mngr looking to hire
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