Re:In the past, I've had students call my problem sets “emot...
by cbeach on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @07:34AM
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I agree it’s horrible to discriminate on personality types.
As a counterpoint, though: in software jobs, the ability to pick up things fast is commercially valuable. As a hiring manager, if school grades helped me identify extremely smart folks who pick up things fast, then those grades are a useful tool.
Not all jobs are the same, however, and so other hiring managers might set a lower bar for grades. But it’s important that we have these tools, in addition to the various other ways we evaluate candidates.
As a counterpoint, though: in software jobs, the ability to pick up things fast is commercially valuable. As a hiring manager, if school grades helped me identify extremely smart folks who pick up things fast, then those grades are a useful tool.
Not all jobs are the same, however, and so other hiring managers might set a lower bar for grades. But it’s important that we have these tools, in addition to the various other ways we evaluate candidates.