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How to hire low experience, high potential people

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Re: How to hire low experience, high potential people

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I suspect you may be interpreting this a bit too broadly, and it's obviously personal for you. Part of work is, nearly invariably, social. Not wanting to get Friday beers with the team shouldn't really be a factor. Not being able to communicate smoothly and effectively with them in a work context absolutely is. I suspect the poster you are responding to is focusing on the latter, and you on the former.

Then there are some of us for whom this smooth communication is a huge challenge. We spend a lot of time and energy masking, trying to fake the perfect vibe (and failing of course, because the result is predictably unnatural), but this is a necessary survival tactic. This is why all the talk of valuing neurodiversity is BS. The leaders want an autistic savant without the autistic part. Playing one is exhausting and c…

I get that, really I do.

Depending on the team and project , those challenges balanced against the pluses may mean that it’s worth doing anyway , or equally they may mean that it is not. It can be exhausting for the other people involved also.

I agree that anyone treating it as a character flaw is problematic and unlikely to result in effective mitigations. There also aren’t always effective mitigations , this stuff is all pretty context dependent .

Re: How to hire low experience, high potential people

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This whole thing read like a sociopath selecting for people they can exploit.

While I was, on the contrary, thinking the questions were at risk of finding sociopaths who said the right things, made up the right stories, and then went on exploiting the company and people there Maybe it's a combination of both

(Just to avoid misunderstandings: I think the article author seems like a good-intentions person, just that the _interview questions_ look partly risky to me)
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