Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study
The only good way to assess a candidate is to hire them. It&#x27;s sad, but true. Some of the brightest and best will not even be able to code with someone else even paying the remotest attention to them. Interviews used to take account of this 15 years ago. Google came along and destroyed this.<p>I remember talking to a Google interviewer and I came up with a better solution than they expected. Since my solution was non-standard for online median finding-they wanted a unbalanced binary tree where I wanted a tree with the values at the leaves and using a fixed height, in this manner you could easily find successor and predecessor and I&#x27;d have actually found a better solution than their expected solution. They wanted the standard binary tree solution with predecessor and insertion, where I failed.<p>Everything will still jovial, until I mentioned that I consider the tools I use and how to operate them as part of my skill-set. Apparently this is false.<p>This was me interviewing at Google for a potential job using computer graphics or computer vision. I wouldn&#x27;t even be working with problems anywhere close to this.<p>I&#x27;ve found that everyone is just copying Google&#x27;s process because of all of Google&#x27;s cash and success, but don&#x27;t realize that most of Google&#x27;s success is not due to any investment but rather just one solid team doing search well.<p>Anyways, I&#x27;m glad I didn&#x27;t get hired, I have a better job (pay and work). Both of the projects I would have worked on have already failed or nearing failure already, it&#x27;s been like 3 months.