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For books, I haven't come across any recently that I've been impressed with. I still like Why Good People Can't Get Jobs. It's a more academic take than the dime-a-dozen "I was a manager at this company and here are my personal philosophies about hiring". Costing Human Resources also covers selection and HR analytics.

For knowledge share, I like some of the web-based resources that are out there. A lot of I/O Psychologists had their hands in drafting the Uniformed Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedure, and the professional association have put out some great blogs and White Papers that also cover assessments and applicant attitudes.

If you really want that crack-open-a-book feel, there are many academic handbooks that collected the best of the best articles from researchers/practitioners on this exact subject. The American Psychological Association has the Handbook of Industrial and Organizational Psychology (Volume 2 deals with Selection). There's also another Handbook of Industrial, Work & Organizational Psychology written by Anderson, Ones, Sinangil and Viswesvaran (some of the big names in this subject area). The cost is insane, but there are pdf versions laying around online.

And if you've seen anything interesting, let me know.

Irrelevant but this book (Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble) from Dan Lyons about His experience in HubSpot.
It pretty much sums up these kind of startups and things they do.

Recommended and worth reading if you ask me, I enjoyed it.

> As easy as it would be to cover their backsides and do legally, why on earth would they bung this up?

Well, there's a theory around about SJWs being attracted to HR, infesting it, and then hiring other SJWs until the corporation is about 'social justice' rather than whatever the corporation is supposed to do -- the process is called 'convergence' and illustrated in these two books -- given what we're seeing out of the tech industry, it may be that this theory of convergence has some truth to it.

They aren't advertising to you. They're advertising to my sons, who care very much about Pirates vs. Ninja. This was a favorite read for a while. https://www.amazon.com/Pirates-vs-Ninja-LEGO-Ninjago-ebook/dp/B00I0YWA4W/ I just read it again a few days ago to the younger one. Been read so much it's falling apart. MORE pajama men!

My 10YO rocks Scratch pretty hard, and he is ALL about hitting F12 and doing some quick modifications to a displayed page to mess with people. Ad is probably targeted at him!

I highly recommend this book:

https://www.amazon.com/Never-Split-Difference-Negotiating-Depended-ebook/dp/B014DUR7L2

It's really sharpened not only my negotiation skills, but many every day interactions I've had with people, particularly employers etc. Very much worth the read.

It's called Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed.


I can absolutely recommend reading it.

They want you to take the next 12 months to study up on the difference between red and blue so you'll be prepared to apply again next year.


Here's some study materials

I remembered the books:

Cracking the Coding Interview, Gayle Laakmann McDowell
https://www.amazon.com/Cracking-Coding-Interview-Programming-Questions/dp/0984782850

Coding Interview Questions, Narasimha Karumanchi
https://www.amazon.com/Coding-Interview-Questions-Narasimha-Karumanchi/dp/1475293534/

Programming Interviews Exposed: Coding Your Way Through the Interview

Also: https://leetcode.com