> A 5% bomb rate for an on-site question will put you into the 60-70% pass rate.
I'm not sure I follow the math here, can you expand a little?
I'm not sure I follow the math here, can you expand a little?
But if you do even two interviews your chance at getting one offer jumps to 1-.4^2 thru 1-.3^2 (84-91%).
(Am I out of practice? Did I do that wrong?) -- I tapped out painful on my phone.
My point was addressing the frustration with whiteboard interviews. It sucks to feel qualified and still get rejected. That doesn't necessarily mean they all way outclass you (they might!). If you treat interviewing like applying to colleges (3 or 4 big schools, a few backups) you're going to be a lot less burned by the system.
Sure, hate the system. But we've covered blaming the interviews. But that's not helping anyone right now.
As to the model, in my experience if you do sufficiently poorly on one and leave any doubt on another no one interview will save you. Sure you could add in the probability of failing two vs one. But that's numerically the same as just making that .95 a .9. It's a made up number, so what. The conclusion is kinda the same: doing pretty well can still lead to a failure for any given job, but you can still do pretty well in your job hunt.