Follow-up to “The dystopian world of software engineering interviews”
I don't know, hiring seems inherently broken.Not just the algorithmic part, even the part leading up to it.You have to impress a recruiter or an HR drone by listing all the buzzwords that are currently trendy.Then, even after the algorithmic questions and interviews where you prove you can DO the job, you get rejected.Every company I've worked for had trouble hiring.I'm working for a company that also has trouble hiring right now.
Last week, the person interviewing our latest candidate told me that despite the candidate doing perfectly fine, he couldn't come up with something that he felt excited about doing in his current job, which was a red flag for him.I tried explaining that perhaps that's something you shouldn't expect from someone who's at that point switching jobs.
We're still discussing how hard it is to find good people.Most of the companies I've interviewed for also have trouble hiring, yet I've been rejected for the most asinine reasons.
These companies have the same positions open years later and not due to growth.All this rant is to say, we're mostly doing this to ourselves.I don't have a better way of doing things, but I can't just blame a handful of big corps for this, as if their technical interviews weren't designed by technical folks themselves.