Re:Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software s...
by ornornor on Thursday July 16, 2020 @01:27AM
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That is exactly my current employer. Our main office is in a small town, so there aren’t that many candidates to begin with (a job stays open for 6–9 months and we get maybe 15 applicants during that time)
Our software is utter trash because the business is very clannish, fragmented, and the people in charge either never ever wrote code or did it 15 years ago.
And yet we fail 95% of the technical candidates we interview because they don’t meet our “high” standards. We won’t even consider hiring remotely (but within the country because we’re making government software) even though an overwhelming majority of the company and tech team has been working from home 80–100% since March... No, we’re insisting on rejecting the handful of candidates that apply in our small town. Insane.
Our software is utter trash because the business is very clannish, fragmented, and the people in charge either never ever wrote code or did it 15 years ago.
And yet we fail 95% of the technical candidates we interview because they don’t meet our “high” standards. We won’t even consider hiring remotely (but within the country because we’re making government software) even though an overwhelming majority of the company and tech team has been working from home 80–100% since March... No, we’re insisting on rejecting the handful of candidates that apply in our small town. Insane.