Can’t just be me, can it? Currently 0 for 3 on interviews because I can’t seem to get past the technical interview/test. Usually because of some crazy complicated algorithm question that’s never been relevant to anything I’ve ever had to do on the job in all my years coding.

Also, while I’m ranting: screw the usual non-answer when given feedback.

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    It’s pretty shitty that you are attributing the cultures of companies to the personalities of individuals. You’re going to miss out on a lot of good people doing that.

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      I think it’s fine to attribute those values to employees who fought to work at companies with those problems. I’m not calling out hidden problems; I’m calling out the issues you can easily find when you do a cursory search for information on the company you’re going to work for. If you think it’s okay to go work for a company like Meta I know you’re okay with some disgusting shit and I don’t want you near my team or my customers.

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        I hope you reconsider your stance cuz you’re making a lot of assumptions about people based on very limited information.

        You do you, but throwing out applicants because you think they personally agree with everything their past employers have done is ridiculous.

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          Although I agree with you that people shouldn’t equate company values and employees’ values, I’d say that it could be true, especially if they did work there for long enough.

          As for my personal opinion, this could likely be solved by a short questionnaire on why they left the company and what do they think of this and that.

          I have never tried to get into FAANG (MAAMA 😅) but if I did, I’d definitely focus more on how to get there, not on why that’s a bad idea, so it’s not quite correct to judge based on the fact that someone worked somewhere.

          As a side note, I had never did a thorough research of companies I applied to, somehow it mostly worked out, but I did sometimes end up in the company I wasn’t quite comfortable in ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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      But OP was experience hiring both sorts of candidates and found non-FAANG employees to work out better.

      And no, one shouldn’t judge completely on a former company’s culture, but some people do indeed drag that shit with them. My old boss would be great for some roles in my new company, but she has absolutely poisonous management skills stemming from her environment.