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interviewing.io blog
Company blog · interviewing.io/blog · on HN as leenycareerprogramming
interviewing.io blog is the company blog at interviewing.io, writing about career and programming. Since 2014, 70 different Hacker News readers have linked it 128 times, most often “Practice interviewing with engineers from Google, Facebook”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Rarely recommended · 3 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for data-driven posts on tech hiring, such as hiring-market predictions and interview-performance analysis. Most comments mention its mock-interview service rather than the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Get actionable feedback, get awesome at technical interviews, and get fast-tracked at top companies.
Most-linked posts?
- Practice interviewing with engineers from Google, Facebook15 people · 18 mentions · first linked 2016-10-08
- /7 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2018-01-11
- Show HN: Free, anonymous coding interview practice6 people · 9 mentions · first linked 2014-07-02
- When is hiring coming back? Our predictions for 20246 people · 6 mentions · first linked 2023-12-11
- I love meritocracy, but all the recent anti-DEI rhetoric is bad5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-10-03
- How much have 2022 layoffs affected engineers vs. other departments?4 people · 13 mentions · first linked 2023-02-23
- Testing how hard it is to cheat with ChatGPT in interviews4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2024-01-31
- /blog/voice-modulation-gender-technical-interviews3 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2022-12-26
- /3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-06-17
- I've never written code, but I just passed a Google system design interview3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-08-11
What Hacker News says?
How about advocating for more objective hiring processes then? You could use AI to mask someone's voice and visage during a video interview. This was actually tried btw, see if you can predict the result: https://interviewing.io/blog/voice-modulation-gender-technic...
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on “Meta's memo to employees rolling back DEI programs”Submitted Show HN: Free, anonymous coding interview practice as a story · 604 points
HN discussionI stumbled across another amazing resource a while back - recorded mock interviews: https://interviewing.io/recordings/Python-Google-6/ I'm not affiliated with this site, I just thought this was a great idea and well executed. I used to lean toward the "studying algorithms, data structures, whiteboarding, etc. is useless since I'll never actually need them" ideology until later in my career when I realized that wors…
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on “Tech Interview Handbook”Submitted Testing how hard it is to cheat with ChatGPT in interviews as a story · 257 points
HN discussion> With our model, we free up companies from having to worry about exactly what you described because we incur the vetting. I looked at your webpage & FAQ for employers. ( https://interviewing.io/employers ) Can you say how much your service costs?
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on “If you care about diversity, don't just hire from the same five schools”Submitted The unwritten rules of negotiating with Meta as a story · 150 points
HN discussion> The market for talent is competitive. A couple months ago interviewing.io posted something bragging about how "we do anonymous mock interviews. If people perform well in those interviews, they get introduced directly to a decision-maker at top-tier companies, regardless of how they look on paper." ( https://interviewing.io/blog/i-love-meritocracy-but-all-the-... ) This annoyed me enough that I sent in an email com…
Comment linking /blog/i-love-meritocracy-but-all-the-recent-anti-dei-rhetoric-is-bad
on “Dropbox announces 20% global workforce reduction”Submitted Bloomberg's analysis didn't show that ChatGPT is racist as a story · 66 points
HN discussion1) DEI can be done badly, of course, and in an ideal world would be unnecessary, I think anyone on either side of any spectrum wants merit over anything else, but for various historical, systemic, as well as unconscious bias [1], this has not been the case, statistically. DEI on the ~interviewer~ side, not the interviewee side can and has addressed [1]. I fail to see the downside. The only way to claim it's unfair w…
Comment linking /blog/i-love-meritocracy-but-all-the-recent-anti-dei-rhetoric-is-bad
on “Trump Orders National Guard to Washington and Takeover of Capital’s Police”Submitted Show HN: Replays of technical interviews with engineers from Google, FB and more as a story · 64 points
HN discussioninterviewing.io | Sales Manager | SF | ONSITE, FULL-TIME | https://www.interviewing.io interviewing.io helps companies hire great engineers. We provide candidates with free, live, rigorous practice interviews and use data from these interviews to identify top performers, who can then talk to companies anonymously right on our platform. We’ve hired for Facebook, Uber, Twitch, Lyft, Yelp, and more. You’d be the 1st fu…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2017)”Submitted Official sequel to Cracking the Coding Interview is out as a story · 44 points
HN discussion> For mock interviews, definitely check out: > http://interviewing.io/ I got this recommendation about a year ago and tried. The site stated that I couldn't register, but I could sign up for a place in the registration queue. So I did that. I have yet to hear back from them. I don't quite understand how people keep recommending them, as if it was possible to use the site.
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on “Data Structures for Coding Interviews”Submitted How to sabotage your salary negotiation efforts before you even start as a story · 41 points
HN discussionThanks! Have a few new questions in the pipeline :) For mock interviews, definitely check out: - http://interviewing.io/ - http://www.byte-by-byte.com/practice-coding-interviews/ - https://www.pramp.com/ - https://www.funnel.la/ - http://interviewkickstart.com/ (email 'em to ask about mock interviews over Skype)
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on “Data Structures for Coding Interviews”Submitted You shouldn't list certifications on LinkedIn as a story · 28 points
HN discussion> Busniess idea: mock phone/video interviews as a service https://interviewing.io/ exists
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on “MIT Career Development Handbook [pdf]”Submitted A senior engineer's guide to the system design interview (2nd half) as a story · 27 points
HN discussionWe use https://interviewing.io/ a lot, and there is ample opportunity to provide both structured and unstructured feedback from the candidate to the interviewer, and from the interviewer to the candidate. This seems like a better model than recruiters filtering the information.
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on “Show HN: Applying for jobs? Manage all your interviews in one place”Submitted Are recruiters better than a coin flip at judging resumes? Here's the data as a story · 25 points
HN discussionI was in a similar situation 3 years ago. Like other people said, I'd focus on growth-stage startups (Stripe, Checkr, Airbnb, Opendoor, etc). I found their interviews more practical and approachable than Facebook, Google, etc. Most of the places I interviewed had me writing and running real code on my own computer. I spent about a month prepping with: * Cracking the Coding Interview * https://www.interviewcake.com :…
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on “Ask HN: Startup failed after years of work – Can I even get a job now?”Submitted Why resume writing is snake oil as a story · 21 points
HN discussionWe did an experiment at interviewing.io a few months ago where we asked interviewees to try to cheat with AI, unbeknownst to their interviewers. In parallel, we asked interviewers to use one of 3 question types: verbatim LeetCode questions, slightly modified LeetCode questions, and completely custom questions. The full writeup is here: https://interviewing.io/blog/how-hard-is-it-to-cheat-with-ch... TL;DR: - Intervie…
Comment linking /blog/how-hard-is-it-to-cheat-with-chatgpt-in-technical-interviews
on “AI killed the tech interview. Now what?”Submitted A Senior Engineer's Guide to the System Design Interview as a story · 14 points
HN discussion> I also am in favor of "open book" interviews. I recall reading an interviewing.io blog post[0] in which the dominant considerations interviewers weighed were (my interpretation): (1) Did they solve the problem optimally? (2) How fluid was their coding? With "communication" turning out to be basically worthless for predicting hire/no-hire decisions. Perception of coding fluidity seems like it would be affected by h…
Comment linking /blog/does-communication-matter-in-technical-interviewing-we-looked-at-100k-interviews-to-find-out
on “Testing how hard it is to cheat with ChatGPT in interviews”Submitted How well do LeetCode ratings predict interview performance? Here's the data as a story · 11 points
HN discussionI admire triplebyte's effort and the content they produce. Their narrative is really data-driven common sense: some engineers fit to some companies but not to others. Especially enjoyed: http://blog.triplebyte.com/who-y-combinator-companies-want I am a programmer and I run http://www.coderfit.com , a tiny recruiting agency in Zurich / Switzerland (reach out to me via e-mail address in my HN-handle if you look for a…
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on “Show HN: 15-question programming quiz with answers”Submitted Why giving feedback (whether it's good or bad) will help you hire as a story · 10 points
HN discussionInterviewing.io compared public data to their internal data and make a compelling argument for hiring to pick up in Q2 [0], though I don't know if the recent spate of 2024 layoffs change this calculus. [0] https://interviewing.io/blog/when-is-hiring-coming-back-pred...
Comment linking /blog/when-is-hiring-coming-back-predictions-for-2024
on “Ask HN: Why am I suddenly unemployable?”Submitted For 6 years, we ran the largest blind eng hiring experiment of all time as a story · 6 points
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