Re:Ask HN: How do you assess teamwork skills during interview?
by koopuluri on Friday February 09, 2018 @05:24PM
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Wow... that's out there. Intuitively it makes sense: I would want to work with someone that chooses to help others around them when presented the opportunity. But then again, I wouldn't feel comfortable taking away points from a candidate if they didn't help - maybe they were stressing over the interview they were about to have, etc. and didn't want to distract themselves.
> maybe someone else can verify it
I'm really curious to see if anyone has implemented such a test over and over again.. The biggest challenge right now with changing up the interview process is validating the change is tough. You need to use the same challenge in a lot of interviews, and track how well the candidates did over time at their jobs, if hired, in order to be able to verify. Tough to do for a startup.
Re:Ask HN: How do you assess teamwork skills during interview?
by deepaksurti on Saturday February 10, 2018 @03:06AM
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>> they had an uncompleted coat hunger from IKEA
http://worknearyou.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ikea_job_i...
Re:Ask HN: How do you assess teamwork skills during interview?
by megaman22 on Saturday February 10, 2018 @05:54AM
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Assembling furniture as part of an interview process for a white-collar job is a little silly, and I can easily see how that might introduce bias if it's given much weight - that's sort of a stereotypically male task, down to the usage of spatial orientation skills to understand and compare the instructions versus the assembled object.
Re:Ask HN: How do you assess teamwork skills during interview?
by tebugst on Saturday February 10, 2018 @01:30AM
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I love to help other people to fix there coding problems. But in this situation I may withdraw unless I really feel person needs help. As per my experience, sometimes offering help hurts ego ( particularly senior brogrammer )
Once in an interview for a startup company(~10 people), when I got into the office they had an uncompleted coat hunger from IKEA and there was a person trying to assemble it. They intentionally let me wait for a bit next to him and he started to look confused with the manual so naturally, I offered to help him and got on my knees and started to read the manual.
They told me much later that that was a test and I had successfully passed it.
I am not sure about the validity of such a test and maybe someone else can verify it.