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diff --git a/src/content/blog/2020/10/20/wrong-interviewing.adoc b/src/content/blog/2020/10/20/wrong-interviewing.adoc index 89f93b8..b673262 100644 --- a/src/content/blog/2020/10/20/wrong-interviewing.adoc +++ b/src/content/blog/2020/10/20/wrong-interviewing.adoc @@ -130,16 +130,16 @@ huge productivity boost is to give them a touch typing course. If they are so productive with typing speed being a limitation, imagine what they could accomplish if they had razor sharp touch typing skills? -Also, why stop there? A good touch typist can do 90 WPM (words per minute), and +Also, why stop there? A good touch typist can do 90 WPM (words per minute), and a great one can do 120 WPM, but with a stenography keyboard they get to 200 -WPM+. That is double the productivity! Why not try -{speech-to-text}[speech-to-text]? Make them all use {j-lang}[J] so they all need -to type less! How come nobody thought of that? +WPM+. That is double the productivity! Why not try +{speech-to-text}[speech-to-text]? Make them all use {j-lang}[J] so they all +need to type less! How come nobody thought of that? And if someone couldn't solve the programming puzzle in the given time window, but could come back in the following day with an implementation that is not only faster, but uses less memory, was simpler to understand and easier to read than -anybody else? You'd be losing that person too. +anybody else? You'd be losing that person too. === IQ @@ -178,11 +178,11 @@ it's a non-differential signaling question. ____ Stretching it, this is a rather snobbish view of HR. Why is it that an intern -in HR can't make signaling questions? Could the same be said of an intern in +in HR can't make signaling questions? Could the same be said of an intern in engineering? In other words: is the question not signaling because the one asking is from HR, -or because the one asking is an intern? If the latter, than he's just arguing +or because the one asking is an intern? If the latter, than he's just arguing that interns have no place in interviewing, but if the former than he was picking on HR. @@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ only see them as inferiors doing unpleasant work, and who aren't capable enough This is equivalent to people who work primarily on backend, and see others working on frontend struggling and say: "isn't it just building views and -showing them on the browser? How could it possibly be that hard? I bet I could +showing them on the browser? How could it possibly be that hard? I bet I could do it better, with 20% of code". As you already know, the answer to it is "well, why don't you go do it, then?". @@ -270,13 +270,13 @@ proposal isn't sound enough to not become one. Even if the ideas were good, they aren't solid enough, or based on solid enough things to make them stand out by themselves. Why is it that talent, judgment and personality are required to determine the fitness of a good candidate? Why -not 2, 5, or 20 things? Why those specific 3? Why is talent defined like that? +not 2, 5, or 20 things? Why those specific 3? Why is talent defined like that? Is it just because he found talent to be like that? Isn't that definitionally also {cult}[cargo-culting]footnote:cargo-cult[ {cult-archived}[Archived version]. -]? Isn't he just repeating whatever he found to work form him, without +]? Isn't he just repeating whatever he found to work form him, without understanding why? What Feynman proposes is actually the opposite: @@ -314,13 +314,13 @@ about technical hiring? What studies were performed on the different success rate of interviewing strategies? What have they done right and what have they done wrong? -What is the purpose of HR? Why do they even exist? Do we need them, and if so, +What is the purpose of HR? Why do they even exist? Do we need them, and if so, what for? What is the value they bring, since everybody insist on building an -HR department in their companies? Is the existence of HR another form of cargo +HR department in their companies? Is the existence of HR another form of cargo culting? -What is industrial and organizational psychology? What is that field of study? -What do they specialize in? What have they learned since the discipline +What is industrial and organizational psychology? What is that field of study? +What do they specialize in? What have they learned since the discipline appeared? What have they done right and wrong over history? Is is the current academic consensus on that area? What is a hot debate topic in academia on that area? What is the current bleeding edge of research? What can they teach us |