| ▲ | bibek_poudel 10 days ago |
| I read through one of his emails. This guy is great at communicating his interest and signaling himself as a "high performer". Perhaps, he is also genuinely good at cracking these interviews. No wonder, he's been through so many of them. |
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| ▲ | alpb 9 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| this email? https://x.com/var_epsilon/status/1940492841232584745 |
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| ▲ | mpeg 8 days ago | parent [-] | | That's a particularly terrible cold email, you can tell he didn't even bother applying some basic personalisation to it outside of [COMPANY_NAME] | | |
| ▲ | sreekanth850 8 days ago | parent [-] | | Nutshell: Toxic founders who want developers to code 24X7 may hired him seeing this. | | |
| ▲ | anon_2222 8 days ago | parent [-] | | ding ding ding. both soham + recruiter implied he basically just codes day and night. our founder (yc) was drooling! there's a very specific type of company + founder that falls for this stuff. no surprise he targeted ai startups. | | |
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| ▲ | mathiaspoint 10 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Interviewing really is a distinct skill from contributing and the more people crank it the more it seems to test for interview ability. |
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| ▲ | ninetyninenine 7 days ago | parent | next [-] | | IQ tests are also distinct skills but IQ scores are the most quantifiable and studied numbers in all of psychology and correlate with all kinds of things like job performance. I think the purpose of the interview is the same thing. Even though there's no strong evidence for a correlation it's reasonable to believe intuitively that there is. | |
| ▲ | skeeter2020 8 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | I suspect (and have seen some evidence) that the interviews he aced were algo-based. Doing well in these is very repeatable, with low additional effort. Behavioural are much harder to do at scale. |
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