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Re:Edsger Dijkstra – The Man Who Carried Computer Science on... by enumjorge on Friday October 30, 2020 @01:23PM (#24944600)
That reminds me of the anecdote where one of Google’s hiring committees realized that they wouldn’t have gotten hired had they been judged by their own standards. It makes you wonder how much talent gets filtered out when we apply very stringent metrics to grade candidates.
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Re:Edsger Dijkstra – The Man Who Carried Computer Science on... by texuf on Friday October 30, 2020 @03:01PM (#24945664)
I can't find it but I saw a presentation (I think from someone at Etsy) where the presenter described being on an interview panel that failed all of the candidates in a batch, only to find out that they had been given their own packets to review.
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Re:Edsger Dijkstra – The Man Who Carried Computer Science on... by pkaye on Friday October 30, 2020 @02:12PM (#24945196)
Working at a smaller company, I knew a few people in the hiring committee that had unreasonable standards. We used to tease them that they wouldn't pass their own standards when they were hired. Fortunately we didn't need unanimous approval of candidates.
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Re:Edsger Dijkstra – The Man Who Carried Computer Science on... by akshat_h on Friday October 30, 2020 @10:03PM (#24948580)
If anyone is curious, it might be this talk.

Moishe Lettvin - What I Learned Doing 250 Interviews at Google. It is on Etsy Eng channel Youtube url with the relevant time frame https://youtu.be/r8RxkpUvxK0?t=532

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Re:Edsger Dijkstra – The Man Who Carried Computer Science on... by bookofjoe on Saturday October 31, 2020 @11:11AM (#24952059)
For many years many, if not most, of my fellow physicians have remarked that it's doubtful we would be admitted today to medical school. (me: UCLA Medical School, class of 1974)
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