Thread by @patio11

Most tech interviews and hiring processes are broken.

This is a really good guide to how to adapt to the brokenness as a candidate: blog.usejournal.com/i-interviewed-…

I particularly like the emphasis on funnel management and scheduling (for probabalistically landing as many high quality opportunities as possible), specific recommendations for a course of study (and “You should study.”), and advice on how to comport yourself in an interview.

One thing I think most candidates don’t appreciate is that they treat it like a test but it’s more instrumentally effective to treat it like a game. Discover the rules of the game and then provide the game with the input that the rules score highly.

Companies are not unaware that this is a game. I have heard from interviewees at many companies on that list that individuals will literally send the book on how to take their interview to candidates. (This makes a lot of sense if you consider incentives despite being bonkers.)

From an individual’s perspective, they may be compensated on your game performance, and so of course they want you to win even if the game is instituted as a filter mechanism.

From company’s, “Willing to read docs and do unpaid work to satisfy our arbitrary preferences”, well.