#interviews

We removed our coding and algorithms interviews and replaced them with an AI-native onsite: Plan: A working session with the candidate to define a product to build. The candidate drives ideation, while interviewers ask questions to strengthen it. We focus on an idea in the candidate’s domain so we see their product thinking in action. Build: The interviewer steps out and the candidate brings the idea to life over 2 hours, using the AI tooling and frameworks of their choice. They have complete freedom to pivot or adjust scope as they go. Review: The candidate demos what they’ve built. We debate the key product flows and choices they made; review the code to understand their technical judgment (data model, abstractions, extensibility, etc.); and discuss the path to production. We also dig into how they used AI along the way.

The engineer who froze during a 30-minute LeetCode exercise might be the same person who quietly ships flawless code, writes excellent docs, and debugs complex systems. You’re not rejecting a bad engineer, you’re rejecting someone who doesn’t perform well while being watched.

Since everyone started using AI, more candidates started clearing the first round with flying colors. The platforms had to recalibrate to let in their target percentage. But they're not measuring the code written by the candidate anymore—they're measuring how well the candidate uses an LLM. Most developers who can actually write this code try to do it themselves. They get marked lower than peers who used AI and completed it faster. The result? Hiring teams keep raising the bar arbitrarily, trying to find the candidates who are best at prompt engineering their way through a coding test.

"11 years ago I blind-pitched Wired magazine an ill-defined article on Rand. In response, they asked me to write an "interview" with her, where I would come up with all of the questions and then cobble together her answers from things that she had written and said (she died in 1982)."

"Note that the knowledge for each level is cumulative; being at level n implies that you also know everything from the levels lower than n. "

Just like Troopergate, she counts on morons to just believe without question or follow-up. So tired of the exploitation of fear and willful ignorance. "Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, in a campaign appearance Sunday, criticized comments about coal technology that Sen. Barack Obama made to The Chronicle editorial board in January, and suggested that the newspaper withheld the information from the public - even though the interview has been posted on the newspaper's Web site since it was given."

"last Friday the band showed up promptly at 11am (EDT) and commenced to give what is possibly the worst interview in the history of electronic media."

"Alice in Videoland is bringing back the days of vintage music and the fun early days of MTV. We recently had the chance to sit and talk with lead vocalist of Alice in Videoland, Toril Lindqvist."

"This interview contains major spoilers for Atlantis's "Sunday," as well as minor spoilers for "A Dog's Breakfast" and Sanctuary."

"Thanks to the fine folks at the BBC in Edinburgh, their international relations division in London and KQED's Howard Gelman, we had more than an hour of time to discuss genre, genres and the ties that bind them together for Stross."