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FlyingSnake

A humble request to all the wonderful companies that are hiring:

1. Could you please provide a short note on your hiring process?

2. Could you please provide valuable feedback to the candidates who spent time and didn't get selected?

Edit: @dang would it be possible to provide a template for the companies that make the job postings easier?

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Yep, can't upvote this enough. I would rather not even look at companies who have hiring process like the FAANG.

What? you don't want to review path finding algorithms for a job that involves HTML and CSS?

I could stomach going through all the algorithms and data structures that I learned many years ago even though we don't use most of them just for fun, but what I can't stand is the time pressure. There is no way in real life somebody will write a complex algo like that in 45 minutes. Their process is just so broken.

Passing job interviews is already a skill on its own, and one that does not necessarily coincides with being a good employee.

100% agree with all of you in this. I was once rejected for "taking too long to dive into coding." I was only given 20 minutes to solve an algorithm, and was clarifying input and output, edge cases, and pseudocoding before implementing.

The process is very very broken indeed.

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