Re:Senior Developers Are Getting Rejected for Jobs
by maaaats on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @11:53AM
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But now you did the mistake of assuming a lot of stuff, with very little data. Why can you say that person 2 is better at working in a group? Maybe person 1 was just very nervous, or is a type that takes a few days to warm up to new people. Maybe person 1 just crack jokes all day and is actually detrimental to the productivity. Impossible to tell from this one que alone.
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Re:Senior Developers Are Getting Rejected for Jobs
by debaserab2 on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @12:26PM
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You're always left with an imperfect amount of information after an interview. I don't think that means you should discount how well someone fits into a conversation given how important solid communication is.
Re:Senior Developers Are Getting Rejected for Jobs
by kaesar14 on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @01:04PM
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Pretty much this. Yes, technical skill is important, but to some degree, the proficiency to do our jobs can mostly be taught given a proven background and some proven competency during the interview. Good communication skills? That's something taught over a lifetime.
Re:Senior Developers Are Getting Rejected for Jobs
by jvagner on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @12:15PM
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And hence, some weight in the skills/judgement of the interviewer.
Which is also why there are usually multiple stages in an interview process, or at least, you pass a candidate to 3 or more team members to interview the candidate.
In my experience, it's hard to find good candidates, but not that hard to figure out which of the candidates will be a good fit, and a strong contributor, to a team. I've also hired mostly for team sizes of 10-20 developers, not 200.