Comment by steve_adams_86
17 hours ago
Thanks for sharing this. I love tiny projects like this, especially if they’re over engineered.
The job market is rough. I have no doubt you were considered, and they were interested, but everyone is giving their all right now. Someone likely submitted something even cooler, somehow.
> somehow
yeah by recycling their project from a previous interview and adding more to it
I just don't engage in that kind of assessment anymore, the job market isn’t thaaaat tough to need to compromise
or, put another way, jumping through that hoop will not solve your interview progress as its just far too subjective. other hoops are just as fine
> the job market isn’t thaaaat tough to need to compromise
I’m finding it absolutely brutal. I’ve never encountered anything like it. I could be doing something wrong, though.
If you leave RSU-land there are tons of midsize companies, fully remote, filling headcount pretty quickly
Get a third party recruiter
It was brutal for me in that tier last year and before, but now its ridiculous
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To clarify - I wrote this tool as my own initiative. On top of the "normal" process (that involved multiple interviews and a day paid trial). I was really excited about the opportunity and wanted to go the extra mile.
Dude I’m often on interview panels and some of the other interviewers are insufferable.
When they give feedback, they love getting on their soapbox and critiquing others as if they were Olympic judges or something.
I’ve had to hold myself back from saying bro we wouldn’t hire you yourself if this criteria actually had to be met.
Some hiring managers require all this elaborate prep work and it’s such bullshit, imo it’s a total cop out to have people do so much work as part of the interview process.
It’s the lazy way of evaluating someone versus thoughtfully putting together a good hiring process and conducting effective interviews.
I’ve had the same experience many times where the people I’m interviewing candidates with wouldn’t get hired under the same conditions. They tend to be early hires who have stuck around, and they’re super protective and defensive.
Rather than welcome people to the team to learn from them and grow the team, they criticize and reject people like crazy. It’s very reactive rather than proactive behaviour, and it’s a bad sign to have it at a company.