> don’t fit the mold of the testing method will fail regardless of how competent they are at their actual job.
The mold being answering questions about their supposed area of expertise.
I think people really like to claim that they are misunderstood geniuses who just don't fit the mold of being able to answer questions about the things they know. I have no doubt that such people exist, but I would not want to scrap an evaluation system simply because it doesn't catch every possible person, more important to me is keeping bad people out.
But I have never encountered a company that doesn't have a on-the-spot technical interview (involving coding or math) that has had more success keeping bad engineers out than FAANG.
ah right, leetcode interviews are a woke/politically correct practice promulgated by fake talented FAANG engineers to keep out the real salt of the earth SWEs who know how to do real work.
it's fascinating how these playbooks can recycle themselves in any number of scenarios. yes, conditioning on being an engineer at FAANG you are much more likely to get a better engineer, I'm not going to apologize for saying the truth.
e: not going to keep replying, I seem to recall getting in previous fruitless arguments with you when you suggested banning renting was the way out of California's housing crisis.
> I am arguing that LC/FAANG interview does not do a better job at filtering them out.
You're talking of gigantic tech companies that actually have a business interest in getting that right and you just assume that haven't done any studies about that. If you want to argue they're wrong, fine, but the money is against you on this, so more proof and arguments would be welcome.
I think we all agree that no interview process is perfect, but you're basically claiming that they're all equally bad.
The mold being answering questions about their supposed area of expertise.
I think people really like to claim that they are misunderstood geniuses who just don't fit the mold of being able to answer questions about the things they know. I have no doubt that such people exist, but I would not want to scrap an evaluation system simply because it doesn't catch every possible person, more important to me is keeping bad people out.