Tech Job Interviews Are Out of Control

Emails reviewed by WIRED showed that in one interview for an engineering role at Netflix, a technical recruiter requested that a job candidate submit a three-page project evaluation within 48 hoursall before the first round of interviews..

After years of tech workers being pampered, of bring your whole selves to work and work from anywhere, executives are now overcompensating in the other direction, he says.. The upshot for job-seeking coders is confusion, culture shock, and hours of work done for free..

On the app Blind, an anonymous gossip app where the truth might be elastic but industry trends often emerge, some tech workers say interviews feel practically impossible..

An engineer who became a manager at Dropbox and is now a director in the telecom industry tells WIRED that in his own past job hunting experience, he felt compelled to collect and write over 100 pages of coding material and potential questions before interviews...

Data scientists now get hired to do much of the work that in the past engineers were hired to do, in part because theres real overlap in the skill sets, Bock, the former Google SVP, says.. Unsurprisingly, job seekers are now using AI to turbocharge their search for workand even cheat in interviews..

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