This part is very good.
> as we see fit. you will be judged based on technical content, choices, taste and your overall approach and strategy for moving us forward and convincing us that you're the right person to do it. good luck!
This part is confrontational and will lead to worse outcomes.
At some point as an employer you do want someone who is motivated enough to take some time out of their day to prepare for an interview.
Do you really want an employee who gives so little of a shit that they refuse to use their brain to get a job?
This isn’t exactly a hot labor market in tech. Companies have a good selection of quality talent available right now.
Many many folks are the type that is willing to hard grind/suffer short-term to get through a hoop, but as soon as they are inside they turn that 'optimizer' mindset towards 'how can I do the minimum necessary to coast and collect my paycheck'.
And many many folks who are highly motivated to work hard every day at their job are not highly motivated to prepare for jumping through a hoop like a circus clown.
We’ve also been increasingly finding very few candidates know how to solve a complex question these days without LLM support lol. How are other folks changing their loops these days?
Please tell me you are joking.
techblueberry•1h ago
Why is it that everyone says that soft skills can be more important than hard skills, that engineers talk to people they don’t sit in rooms turning requirements into code, but then, it seems like one of the criticisms about the interview process is “well, engineers can come up with good solutions when alone in a room”
That’s not the job. Articulating technical details when in conversation with your colleagues is.
dijksterhuis•15m ago
i cannot explain why it’s not possible for us to fling the flange if i don’t understand how both the flange flanges and the fling flings.
being able to talk about it is a downstream effect of knowing about it.
BugsJustFindMe•15m ago
If you step back a bit from the words on that page and squint, what you might see is something like "Most of what a skilled engineer does is recognize, sense problems, and feel things that may not be obvious."
The discovery of the right path forward for the goals of the organization comes after that and takes time and planning.
mixmastamyk•13m ago