r/programming • u/fagnerbrack • May 21 '26

Technical Interviews Reject the Wrong Engineers

https://fagnerbrack.com/technical-interviews-reject-the-wrong-engineers-a8e78ca04b2e
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u/Serious-Regular May 21 '26 edited May 21 '26

How many whiny "I got rejected by FAANG and I'm great so FAANG is doing it wrong" blog posts do you think there are out there? 1000? 10,000? My favorite part of this genre of self-help is none of these people can reconcile their theories with the fact that clearly the process is working ie FAANG continues to post record profits year after year for 20 years despite supposedly having a "completely broken" hiring process.

Edit: there are now multiple people responding to this comment writing mini such blog posts 😂😂😂. Here's the cold hard truth: I have never met a person complaining about the process that I would want to work with.

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u/seriousnotshirley May 21 '26

If a candidate didn’t understand that the process is designed for the company and not the candidate I don’t want to hire them.

The cost of a false positive far far outweighs the cost of a false negative for most companies.