So I refused a white board technical test and was asked to leave

Re:So I refused a white board technical test and was asked t... by white-flame on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @08:36AM (#11945178)

You address them as professionals, and if they're lost as to what you're talking about, they're not professionals.

People can't talk the talk about specifics of industry experience if they haven't walked the walk, and that will become obvious in normal discourse around the matters of job role itself and their related experiences. You can be inquisitive, but starting off with CS101 quizzes is just condescending and wildly irrelevant to the actual position.

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Re:So I refused a white board technical test and was asked t... by jpttsn on Thursday June 23, 2016 @11:09AM (#11961523)

I don't think so. Hiring is vulnerable to "behavioral" factors: cognitive biases etc. I'm very fearful of being overconfident, trusting hunches etc. I need hard data.

When I'm being interviewed, I respect the interviewer for demanding hard data, instead of just checking who talks the talk.

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Re:So I refused a white board technical test and was asked t... by AndreyErmakov on Tuesday June 21, 2016 @02:07PM (#11947931)

Indeed the dialogue should go into this direction. Two (or more) people exchanging their experiences to see if they share the same values and can potentially join forces in this case.

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