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Tech interviews (as generally practiced) are an emergent culture of abuse which by happenstance, memetic evolution, malfeasance, or all three happens lets the company play Bad Cop interview process Good Cop offer of employment.
Serious Q: why don't these companies just throw employment hackathons & learn to observe the talent in its natural habitat? The tech interviews I've had seem designed to actually torture nerds
I like this idea. Just throw everyone in an open plan office, give them 2 days to develop a CRUD app pulling from ERP data, and hire whomever you observe to spend the least time on Twitter.
I've considered doing some Twitch livestreams/recordings of myself coding to save for any future interviewing because it would be a great way to display my nerdery in its Natural Habitat™. e.g. @noopkathttps://www.twitch.tv/noopkat/videos
Well-run hackathons are hard and baking in observability makes it harder. Some firms do have success with them, especially at the junior level or in low income countries (e.g. Poland). Much less effective for experienced engineers in the US. Candidate attendance problems
There is effectively zero unemployment for experience developers.
A nice hack is to promise candidates same-day offers if they attend the hackathon. @viral_launch had success with that
It is not obvious for me that a hackathon is actually a good work sample test for professional software development. Reasons orgs would not do it: inertia, high focus cost of expensive employees, scheduling pain, pushback from desirable candidates, Schelling point issues.
That's not obvious to me, either. But it is pretty obviously better than the typical tech interview? I (seem to) interview more effectively than many friends of mine with much stronger technical skills & vastly better portfolios, and this seems dumb
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Tech interviews are just actually scary
