Peter Yang lists four hiring practices that should change
Commenting on the Anthropic team's decision to cancel coding interviews, Peter Yang listed other hiring practices that need to change: screening candidates by years of work experience or company name, emphasizing resumes and cover letters over actual projects, treating headcount managed as an achievement in itself, and replacing short work trials with endless rounds of interviews.
View original postThe coding interview is dead, at least for my team at Anthropic. I've seen enough to know that it no longer provides signal. I removed it from loops this month. I have a spicy, optimistic take - I think there's an opportunity for junior engineers: https://t.co/PVvpQCbQtK
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The coding interview is dead, at least for my team at Anthropic. I've seen enough to know that it no longer provides signal. I removed it from loops this month. I have a spicy, optimistic take - I think there's an opportunity for junior engineers: https://t.co/PVvpQCbQtK
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Other hiring practices that need to change:
1. Filtering candidates based on years of experience or some company name
2. Prioritizing resumes and cover letters over proof of work and real projects
3. Listing number of people managed as an accomplishment by itself
4. Endless rounds of interviews over short work trials
I could go on.