A few people have mentioned we should talk about Lambda School's weaknesses and struggles. I think that's wise. The biggest one we've had, by far, is students' inability (or unwillingness) to search for jobs after graduation. Job hunting is hard and discouraging (1/n)
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This probably deserves post, but a job interview is a single stage in a multistage pipeline whose ultimate goal is, basically, “Predictably fill headcount by dates on this planning document at lowest cost without hiring more Obvious Regrets Here than our tolerance level for that”
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And so a hypothetical fact like better skill assessments would make the recruiting team’s ability to schedule assessments worse is a sufficient reason to not do the better skill assessment, because that introduces delivery risk, which the process structurally needs to avoid.
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I'd assume current level of ability is actually a relatively less important factor than general ability to think/do stuff/talk about it, but I wouldn't guess you'd get a very good picture of any of that by making someone work through shallow toy problems under extreme stress
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Given a situation where there were already plenty of employees at the level needed to handle a workload, I’d absolutely hire on potential and plan to grow people. From what I’ve seen though it feels like most places hire because they need skill now. Still broken, but deeper.
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Tech interviews are just actually scary