My friends who cheated in interviews are getting promoted

Re:My friends who cheated in interviews are getting promoted by aidenn0 on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @11:40AM (#35888975)

That's a silly argument. There are many jobs at which being smart is an advantage. IQ tests correlate fairly well with being smart. Giving an IQ test could then give you a group of people that are more likely to be smart than the initial interviewing population. Assuming the job is not "taking IQ tests" is the assessment unjustified?

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Re:My friends who cheated in interviews are getting promoted by fauxpause_ on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @12:13PM (#35889477)

Seems irrelevant if the people getting the job by cheating are considered high performers getting promotions

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Re:My friends who cheated in interviews are getting promoted by aidenn0 on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @01:04PM (#35890186)

I think you took too much from implication. TFA states that they are getting promotions. Everything else is assumptions:

1. They are considered high performers (maybe promotions are on a schedule?)

2. They are actually high performers (some people can bullshit their way through a job for years).

3. They are outperforming a hypothetical person who didn't cheat on the test and would have been hired instead of them with an honest assessment.

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Re:My friends who cheated in interviews are getting promoted by fauxpause_ on Wednesday May 10, 2023 @11:05PM (#35896848)

If an org can’t tell who is good and worthy of promotion when they’re working for them every day, they have no chance of doing so in an interview

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