The technical interview practice gap
&gt; I won’t name any specific companies here, but tech giants (many with good intentions and with marching orders to boost their diversity numbers) often do a considerable amount of outreach and pre-interview engagement with candidates from underrepresented backgrounds. This outreach is usually an info session where one engineer speaks to a virtual room of candidates from underrepresented backgrounds. The engineer tells them what to expect in technical interviews, encourages them to learn how to articulate their thought process out loud while solving a problem, and recommends resources like Cracking the Coding Interview. Some companies even go so far as to offer their underrepresented candidates a mock interview or two. [...] Unfortunately, for candidates who are unfamiliar with the process, neither of these interventions is nearly enough.<p>At some point how much hand-holding is enough?<p>They pretty much told candidates where to get sample problems, gave a session showing what the interview is like, did one mock interview... Pretty much all what prospective applicants have to do is pair up and do a few more practice rounds.<p>How is it the evil tech company&#x27;s fault? They gave them the toolbox with all the tools in it and instruction on what to do. And the material to practice building whatever they said they will test them on.