Re:A Method I’ve Used to Eliminate Bad Tech Hires
by JabavuAdams on Thursday November 10, 2016 @08:11AM
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The Blockly maze thing is interesting, but you should realize that you're implicitly biasing against people with poor spatial skills.
My ex-wife is a concert-level pianist who can remember texts (words) after only hearing them once. She's also, astonishingly bad at spatial tasks (gender stereotypes aside).
So unless you're hiring for computer graphics, or visualization or some-such, which has a clear spatial component, you're implicitly biasing against less-spatial people.
Re:A Method I’ve Used to Eliminate Bad Tech Hires
by msimpson on Thursday November 10, 2016 @08:18AM
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We are aware of this bias as our positions and projects often require such skills. I simply cannot hire someone who is unable to comprehend array sorting, vector math, etc.
My ex-wife is a concert-level pianist who can remember texts (words) after only hearing them once. She's also, astonishingly bad at spatial tasks (gender stereotypes aside).
So unless you're hiring for computer graphics, or visualization or some-such, which has a clear spatial component, you're implicitly biasing against less-spatial people.