Proctorio used DMCA to take down a student’s critical tweets

Re:Proctorio used DMCA to take down a student’s critical tweets by thwarted on Thursday November 05, 2020 @10:28PM (#25004580)

Companies use college as a filter because it's difficult to assess proficiency during an interview and they'd like some way to cull the wheat from the chaff, and avoid wasting time talking to and hiring charlatans and posers.

Meanwhile, if you ask google-style brain-teasers during interviews (which can have a legit purpose, but it's become a cliché), people complain about that.

On the third hand, if you ask candidates do actual assess-able work during an interview, the extremes are "white board coding" and "take home programming problems", people balk at whatever you do for that too.

None of these are necessarily good, nor necessarily better than the others.

HN is lousy with complaints about all the different ways to filter and assess candidates.

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Re:Proctorio used DMCA to take down a student’s critical tweets by eru on Thursday November 05, 2020 @11:29PM (#25004904)

Companies use university as a filter for long-term conformity.

That's much more pronounced in non-programming jobs, of course. For many white collar jobs you just need any kind of degree, doesn't matter too much in what.

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Re:Proctorio used DMCA to take down a student’s critical tweets by peterwoerner on Thursday November 05, 2020 @10:49PM (#25004709)

Sure all the systems suck currently (except hire by internal reference, that one works great). Just because all the systems suck doesn't mean that something better might be possible. And part of finding the something better is understanding what doesn't work about the current systems.

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