Don’t do interviews, do discussions

Post by kirso » Sun, Nov 14, 2021, 3:02 AM UTC

twic wrote: post #304

jandrewrogers wrote: post #228

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The challenge with this approach as that many very competent people are not allowed to discuss their prior work in that level of detail. More practical variants of this approach use a straw man software design problem to talk to that will exercise diverse areas of experience.

I do experience-based interviewing, and i have never encountered this problem. The great majority of the time, people are able to talk about anything. Sometimes, there are sensitive parts of prior work, but a candidate can just talk around those bits and focus on the rest. Even if someone had been working somewhere super-secret, if they aren't a junior, they have other experience to talk about. If all your career exp…

Also, I would find it weird if a person never worked on any side projects or tinkering in the free time to discuss the things above.

Post by lwouis » Sun, Nov 14, 2021, 7:29 AM UTC

waisbrot wrote: post #333

lwouis wrote: post #331

I read a lot of anti-diplomas ideology, especially from US culture. Over the years I've realized that the multi-years selection people go through in academia is a decent and most importantly long process to select people. A lot of the conversation is on interviews these days, on the idea that anyone can be a genius programmer after a bootcamp. While I don't deny it's possible, I think traditional selection based on t…

That's good except, as you point out, in the US where schools are paid by the individual. At least some of the anti-diploma sentiment here in the US is because we understand that it would just result in "people born rich are the only ones who can get hired for good jobs".

I don't think there is anything you can do to prevent rich kids from having an easy life.

They are not numerous though, but definition. So the concern shouldn't be too large as well. In France where i'm from, and also here in Japan, i see the education system as mostly working. People get educated and the people more designed for more study can pursue while other go working before them. This seems to work enough to me. I wouldn't know how to improve it without regressing more on other fronts, for instance

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