I am going to be honest here. I will immediately stop the conversation if a company would pull something like this on me. For me, time spent with a recruiter is time mostly wasted: corporate speak, big magnificent mission statements which tell me only what I can find from the site. For me, the whole idea of talking to a tech person is to figure out very quickly whether aforesaid person is interesting, does interesting work and is possibly a good co-worker. Your service doesn't help me at all: you don't work for the company, your knowledge of the company's backend is going to be superficial unless you have touched their code and I couldn't care less if you were a good person or not because I am never going to see you.
Ultimately such a service is disrespectful of candidate time. Also, if you are a small or medium sized startup, you would be blindingly stupid to do purely a google style Algo/DS interview. You don't have six months to train the candidate and you would be better off focusing more on talking about your own problems, how to solve them and such.
Thanks a lot for responding. I agree with few points but my argument against the rest is that I am not hijacking the whole interview process. I am just doing that round one which a junior person from the company would have done and I am hoping that if you clear you would have tons of chances to ask your questions and know the company well.
According to me, taking interview is an art.
In fact, many times I have seen the person getting rejected by a company because someone inexperienced from the team took the first round and rejected him. I agree that companies should not do this. They should give another chance, but in real world when you have tons of resumes pouring in, companies end up doing this.
How about think along these lines, that if I really find you good. I will definitely make sure that your strengths are played in front of the employer really well and you are given due chance.
It doesn't matter if you are a junior person in the company or not. You are a team member, you should have a say in who gets hired.
How about think along these lines, that if I really find you good. I will definitely make sure that your strengths are played in front of the employer really well and you are given due chance.
If I am really good, you will be wasting my time by not giving me a chance to tell me what on earth the company I am interviewing for is doing. Interviewing is a two-way street. It is not only about me passing your tests but it is also whether I will decide to like the company. That time that I spend interviewing with you is time where I still have no idea what the codebase looks like, what the latest problems the company is tussling with, why I would be a right fit.
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I am going to be honest here. I will immediately stop the conversation if a company would pull something like this on me. For me, time spent with a recruiter is time mostly wasted: corporate speak, big magnificent mission statements which tell me only what I can find from the site. For me, the whole idea of talking to a tech person is to figure out very quickly whether aforesaid person is interesting, does interesting work and is possibly a good co-worker. Your service doesn't help me at all: you don't work for the company, your knowledge of the company's backend is going to be superficial unless you have touched their code and I couldn't care less if you were a good person or not because I am never going to see you.
Ultimately such a service is disrespectful of candidate time. Also, if you are a small or medium sized startup, you would be blindingly stupid to do purely a google style Algo/DS interview. You don't have six months to train the candidate and you would be better off focusing more on talking about your own problems, how to solve them and such.
Hi eshvk
Thanks a lot for responding. I agree with few points but my argument against the rest is that I am not hijacking the whole interview process. I am just doing that round one which a junior person from the company would have done and I am hoping that if you clear you would have tons of chances to ask your questions and know the company well.
According to me, taking interview is an art. In fact, many times I have seen the person getting rejected by a company because someone inexperienced from the team took the first round and rejected him. I agree that companies should not do this. They should give another chance, but in real world when you have tons of resumes pouring in, companies end up doing this.
How about think along these lines, that if I really find you good. I will definitely make sure that your strengths are played in front of the employer really well and you are given due chance.
It doesn't matter if you are a junior person in the company or not. You are a team member, you should have a say in who gets hired.
If I am really good, you will be wasting my time by not giving me a chance to tell me what on earth the company I am interviewing for is doing. Interviewing is a two-way street. It is not only about me passing your tests but it is also whether I will decide to like the company. That time that I spend interviewing with you is time where I still have no idea what the codebase looks like, what the latest problems the company is tussling with, why I would be a right fit.