Companies want candidates who are excited about their mission. Nine times out of ten, however, culture fit just means enthusiasm for what a company does. This is usually described by the company as a “poor culture fit”. About 50% of the Triplebyte candidates who fail interviews at companies fail for non-technical reasons. Be enthusiasticĮnthusiasm has a huge impact on interview results. In the meantime, if you do want to get better at interviewing, this blog post describes how we think you can most effectively do so. If you’re interested in what we’re doing, we’d love you to check out our process. We’re working at Triplebyte to change this. I fundamentally do not believe that good programmers should have to learn special interviewing skills to do well on interviews. Indeed, the quality that most correlates with a Triplebyte candidate passing interviews at companies is not raw talent, but rather diligence. We’ve had success teaching candidates to do better on interviews. The good news is that interviewing is a skill that can be learned. They eat large sprawling problems for breakfast, but they balk at 45-min algorithm challenges. Many of these people do poorly on interviews. This means we work with many (very talented) programmers without formal CS training. We focus heavily on practical programming, and let candidates pick one of several ways to be evaluated. We’ve interviewed over 1000 programmers in the last nine months. We interview engineers without looking at resumes, and fast-track them to on-sites at top tech companies. They bring bias, pattern matching, and a lack of standardization. On top of this, interviewers are often poorly trained and inattentive (they would rather be programming), and ask questions far removed from actual work. To do well in an interview, then, you need to be able to solve small problems quickly, under duress, while explaining your thoughts clearly. Each question in an interview, in contrast, lasts less than one hour. To be a productive programmer, you need to be able to solve large, sprawling problems over weeks and months. īeing a good programmer has a surprisingly small role in passing programming interviews. For a more detailed reference of technical interview study materials, check out this extensive guide. This post started as the preparation material we send to our candidates, but we decided to post it publicly.
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