By mitchp
via java.dzone.com
Published: Mar 26 2012 / 08:30
This article comes right after Facebook rejected me after 3 phone interviews, but it is not going to be a hate-post. In fact, I’ve been planning to write it for a couple of months. But now onto the topic: tech companies (Google, Facebook, VMWare, at least, but certainly many more) are all trying to find the best technical talent. (So they contacted me and asked if I’m interested in “exploring opportunities” with them). But how do they do that?
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Jonathan Fisher replied ago:
Think of the most abrasive, anti-team, egotistical, @sshat you ever worked with. Would them scoring 100% on an Algorithms pop quiz make them any easier to work with?
You can teach people to be smart, but you can't teach people to be nice.
Yurik Tyrant replied ago:
Knowing pointers and recursion is a marker for intelligence. An interview question is designed to fit on one white board and to be able to be completed by a qualified applicant in less than one hour, not to reflect day-to-day work.
Jonathan Fisher replied ago:
I don't disagree it's a marker of intelligence, but having a hairshirt in your organization will make the rest of the already employed applicants quit.
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