This person doesn’t seem to be a real technologist, unlike Spolsky. That maybe OK in most compsniea, but seems like a risky choice for a company so developer-focused.
“This article is not meant to be a literary nor an exhaustive topical critique of the novels, which I am cannot fully do, because simply, I did not read the original novels. ”
Slack spends a lot of time promoting itself as a “work hard, them go home” culture. Do others fimd tat to be true? If so, why would burnout be a risk for someone at Slack?
It’s a serious paper by serious people — the headline may oversimplify, as headlines often do, but the fundamental point is right on: deidentifucation is very hard.
Right. There are two ways you get to implementing binary search in an interview: (1) figuring it out from some basics & possibly hints or (2) reciting it from memory.
1 is useful, 2 is useless.
Having used inteviewing.io, it facilitates #1 much more than #2, as a good process should. Interviewer ratings help that.
Obviously there is motivation for Triplebyte, as any recruiting agency, to pick data that is lower. This encourages engineers to accept offers from TB clients vs others. (Similarly, promoting higher figures to companies/clients encourages higher offers & higher close rates.