Hiring Is Broken – My interview experience in the tech industry

Hiring isn't broken, dude. You just don't interview well, and you seem antagonistic even to the idea that your cachet and skills, insofar as they exist, aren't useful to the market. That's a problem -- for you. Interviews exist because employers need a way to quantify and qualify your ability. Typical computer science problems are a (flawed, but concrete) way of doing that. No reasonable interviewer expects you to recollect breadth-first search flawlessly, on demand, onto a whiteboard. But they…

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Yikes... Interviewing sucks but half the reason interviewers ask these types of questions is to see your attitude and how you respond. Writing an Instagram clone in Angular doesn't really tell me much about your problem solving skills when faced with a unique problem. > How many people can actually write BFS on the spot, without preparing for it in advance? Ughhh, should I tell him? > why would they ask me this question, what does breadth-first search has to…

I work with a small Django team as part of a bigger organization. Our hiring process is pretty simple: we send the candidates a specification (that actually happens to be one of our open tickets!) and they build a simple Django app around it. Currently the specification is a simple inventory tracking system, complete with some anonymised (and inconsistent) data to import from a spreadsheet. That, a phone interview and an hour-long face to face interview is all we need…