Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study
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#2One of the best interviews that I ever had was a phone interview where I just so happened to have a good session of meditation beforehand. I never realized how much how well I could do in an interview until I did one while feeling relaxed.
Re: Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study
#3Uh, maybe at times, but I assure you -- I've interviewed some VERY confident, VERY incompetent software dev candidates.
Re: Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study
#4One of the best interviews that I ever had was a phone interview where I just so happened to have a good session of meditation beforehand. I never realized how much how well I could do in an interview until I did one while feeling relaxed.
Did you get the job?
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#5> the findings suggest that companies are missing out on really good programmers because those programmers aren’t good at writing on a whiteboard and explaining their work out loud while coding
Sure, no love for whiteboards from me. However, this does suggest an arbitrage opportunity for an employer who is willing to look differently at these candidates, and then profit handsomely, Moneyball-style.
There's a bunch of money just being left on the table and nobody is picking it up, really?
My two cents is that interviewing candidates can give a whole lot more insight into how to perform in an interview. Interview performance is a skill that is separate from the actual job, and gauging that performance is sub-optimal. But everything in this space is sub-optimal, it's all pick your poison.
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#6Huh, the only successful interviews I have are the ones where I'm burned out after a long, fruitless, frustrating job search. And so I walk in assuming the interview will be a waste of time and just not caring anymore.
That's when I get an offer.
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#7Huh, the only successful interviews I have are the ones where I'm burned out after a long, fruitless, frustrating job search. And so I walk in assuming the interview will be a waste of time and just not caring anymore. That's when I get an offer.
People can smell desperation, and rightly or wrongly, it pushes them away.
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#8Huh, the only successful interviews I have are the ones where I'm burned out after a long, fruitless, frustrating job search. And so I walk in assuming the interview will be a waste of time and just not caring anymore. That's when I get an offer.
People can smell desperation, and rightly or wrongly, it pushes them away.
Haha. So the more driven and hungry i am the worse ill be viewed. The more silver spoon and apathetic ill be cherished.
Sounds like dating ;)
Re: Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study
#9The methodology:
> For this study, researchers conducted technical interviews of 48 computer science undergraduates and graduate students. Half of the study participants were given a conventional technical interview, with an interviewer looking on. The other half of the participants were asked to solve their problem on a whiteboard in a private room. The private interviews did not require study participants to explain their solutions aloud, and had no interviewers looking over their shoulders.
> Researchers measured each study participant’s interview performance by assessing the accuracy and efficiency of each solution.
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> “People who took the traditional interview performed half as well as people that were able to interview in private,”
Re: Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study
#10One of the best interviews that I ever had was a phone interview where I just so happened to have a good session of meditation beforehand. I never realized how much how well I could do in an interview until I did one while feeling relaxed.
Did you get the job?
I got an in-person interview, which didn't go as smoothly.