Re:Show HN: Real world (Jupyter notebook embed) way to asses...
by kthejoker2 on Saturday August 31, 2019 @01:48PM
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I like this, let's consider how do you evaluate someone for a marathon.
Average marathon time is about 4.5 hours. Let's say you expect you're hired to last around 9 years (average is 8 according to GlassDoor but you're woebegone)
So scaling linearly, for every hour you get to assess a job candidate, you'd get 0.2 seconds to evaluate a potential marathoner.
Assuming a typical candidate gives you maybe 12, 24 hours tops, you have all of 3 to 5 seconds to evaluate a marathoner.
The futility of such an exercise is obvious.
The only solutions are to:
* insist on a longer evaluation period
* hire them on a probationary basis
* only hire people who have ran official marathons before, with proof and such
I leave it as an exercise for the reader to determine what's right for their own evaluation process.
Average marathon time is about 4.5 hours. Let's say you expect you're hired to last around 9 years (average is 8 according to GlassDoor but you're woebegone)
So scaling linearly, for every hour you get to assess a job candidate, you'd get 0.2 seconds to evaluate a potential marathoner.
Assuming a typical candidate gives you maybe 12, 24 hours tops, you have all of 3 to 5 seconds to evaluate a marathoner.
The futility of such an exercise is obvious.
The only solutions are to:
* insist on a longer evaluation period
* hire them on a probationary basis
* only hire people who have ran official marathons before, with proof and such
I leave it as an exercise for the reader to determine what's right for their own evaluation process.