Hiring Senior Engineers is so hard😩😩😩
wQCX18 @ Uber
Interviews cannot exactly quantify the caliber of talent.
I had a 3 yoe Candidate perfectly explain me a system design problem for Instagram search feature.
His design was so perfect that he came across a seasoned staff engineer.
I enquired the kid how he knew the whole system in and out and he said he learnt it from grokking the system design book.
While the 10 YOE candidates who we interviewed could barely string together a system and were worse than new grads in their coding rounds.
The problem is that senior Engineers don't bother interviewing around or hopping around. They are happy where they are. They have wives, kids and a family. So they won't bother interviewing or preparing for it for months just because there happens to be an opening.
@blind_feed
