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Re:Technical and non-technical tips for rocking your coding ... by rabidrat on Tuesday September 26, 2017 @06:41PM (#15343246)
While I agree with you for the most part, many companies want a "standardized" interview process, for both diversity and CYA reasons. Tailoring the interview to the candidate is actually illegal in certain organizations (like government), as it has large potential for abuse.
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Re:Technical and non-technical tips for rocking your coding ... by kiliantics on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @09:15AM (#15347447)
That's kind of bullshit though. There's no way for it to be truly objective or standard. You already know what university I went to and made assumptions based on that, you know where I worked before and what my hobbies are.

An interview is not like the SAT. And even the SAT is not an unbiased test.

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Re:Technical and non-technical tips for rocking your coding ... by rabidrat on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @09:33PM (#15353838)
Objectivity is not a binary, and just because we can't be 'truly' 100% objective doesn't mean we shouldn't try to be more so. If you ask everyone different questions, you don't have a baseline of responses, so you can basically fail or pass whomever you want without anyone being the wiser.
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