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Re:Hiring without whiteboards by wccrawford on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @02:03PM (#13878296)
My father often told me that there are 2 ways go get rid of a bad worker. Fire them, or promote them. Eventually, they'll be promoted into a situation where they'll have to be fired.

I don't take "multiple promotions" to mean anything in itself. If they can talk about what they did and why, then I consider that they're probably good at their job. And that's the point of interviews, IMO.

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Re:Hiring without whiteboards by JamesSwift on Wednesday March 15, 2017 @02:46PM (#13878658)
Government / military like to promote problems away. Helps to keep the person away from the work that needs to get done. The good thing about that sector is that there is a lot of room for lateral promotions to other offices and so then they become someone else's problem.
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