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Did you start out with the Google salary + stock options, proceed to also start a side gig, and now drive a lambo?
sorta, yes, and yes ;)
Carry on. Congrats, and you've got the right to say that then :)
IBM's Asshole Test
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Re: IBM's Asshole Test
#602Here in Brazil HR has a similar setup of group tests that they call "Group Dynamics". They would give a task and let the group figure by itself how to solve it.
After some experience with it I figured out that it wasn't the task or who had more "mic time", but who would show leadership skills that mattered.
As usually everyone wanted to talk, what I did was just to orchestrate who said what, making no point on the matter, just controlling the turns and asking "what do you think about Anne's point Dave?". Worked like a charm.
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so, what was the answer, from the lecture? what had you missed? Realistically if i was in datacenter ops and a server wouldn't boot i'd unrack it and rack a new one and let the dev/ops whatever team reprovision. Heck, i did this when i was just a cloud engineer, unracked from a local (non-cloud) facility and brought back machines to the office, to be RMA'd, just to help out. I get the idea that the interviewer had a…
> so, what was the answer, from the lecture? what had you missed? He never told me and I was too flustered at the time to ask. Which was agonizing because I replayed that damn interview in my head for weeks afterward wondering where I went wrong. (Aside from slightly losing my cool, obviously.) I didn't get the sense that the answer he was looking for was, "find someone else who can help," or, "bin the whole server a…
Don't beat yourself up, interviewing is hard, for all parties - usually.
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if i were to institute something like this, the driver would be fairly (and well) compensated to do this task. Any tips would be handed over at the end, so there's no consideration of compensation involved. Obviously tipping is a data point, but it wouldn't influence the drivers report beyond that checkbox.
Now we're adding wage-theft on top of both assessing candidates on their disposable wealth, and accepting and keeping payment from them? The ethics get pretty muddy the further down this path we walk.
i find most things murky if you really try to walk for a while.
I always find it interesting how i'm perceived. I didn't intend wage-theft as part of the idea. Also it is possible that there's people who are qualified to do this work (passenger/commercial endorsements on their driver's license), good character actors, and generally ethical.
I took it all as a thought exercise, anyhow. Having been on the hiring side of the table, i'm not the "team fit" or "social" interviewer. Technical and creative questions. I let people in their fields deal with how their interviews go.
So all told i wouldn't be in the position to hire someone to filter potential hires.