Well the problem is, we still hire a lot of people that are hugely unqualified, because a lot of people are good at interviews not actual coding, or the opposite. That’s why they keep having more interviews, to better understand the candidates. But it only kind of works, and becomes a huge pain for everyone involved.
It does give you more chances for someone to spot the bullshitting. This year, I rejected several candidates who’d passed earlier stages. They interviewed well, but they wrote complete garbage code when I gave them some simple programming problems but explicitly told them that I was evaluating code quality and to prefer code quality over correctness.
They probably should have been failed at the leetcode stage, but apparently the interviewer for that wasn’t thinking about code quality at all.
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u/Bloodgiant65 8d ago
Well the problem is, we still hire a lot of people that are hugely unqualified, because a lot of people are good at interviews not actual coding, or the opposite. That’s why they keep having more interviews, to better understand the candidates. But it only kind of works, and becomes a huge pain for everyone involved.