alt Hacker NewsSignals I've got from this post:
- Steve's company got acquihired by Amazon, granting him a free ticket in without all the torment of the multi-stage interview pipeline.
- It's a well known fact that it's easier to jump from one FAANG to another, so while interviewing at Google he had significant advantage, plus the blog gaining popularity.
- All of this has caused a deep down imposter syndrome, which resulted in an attempt to "improve" an interview process from the inside - but the wings were clipped pretty quickly by the corporate politics. It turns out that lawyers are not planning to reinvent anything there and hence are somewhat more important than engineers.
- The post itself is an self-applause over essentially a failed effort. "I've tried"
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Steve Yegge writing a self-applause post? Well, I never! =)
Well, not exactly. He did say that the hiring process at Geoworks was incredibly rigorous, and that he passed that.
I know this author’s name but not his whole life story, but it reads like he got hired at Amazon before they acquired Geoworks and brought all of his former colleagues over.
He specifically mentioned that Geoworks got Acquired shortly after he was already at Amazon
So, he actually did go through the multi-stage interview pipeline.
Just because you can’t read well, you don’t have to be so cynical.
- "This attracts strong candidates to you, because even your rejections are worth something to them."
That's some solid gaslighting right there! You're right Steve, I would rather be rejected by your team than wasting my time by doing something positive with my career.
I read through it and that’s not the impression I got, it was a thought experiment and not much more.
However, a few companies do have a co-working day, where you work with various people on the team to solve a business problem. I wonder if he could have proposed that instead.
We must've read 2 different posts.
And even if you're interpretation is correct, you sound pretty rude. You're really gonna mock someone for not liking the interview process and trying to make it better?