Re:I applied for a SW role at FedEx and had to take this biz...
by lmm on Monday February 12, 2024 @10:14PM
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Aside from the fact that you'll eliminate a lot of good people, how does that let you screen out people who can't do anything but are decent bullshitters? In a 10-15 minute chat you might catch them contradicting themselves or say something you're lucky enough to remember is wrong (if you're lucky enough to know one of the things they claim experience with in detail), but that's not going to be reliable (and if you eliminate people who get product trivia wrong, that will also have a pretty high false positive rate).
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Re:I applied for a SW role at FedEx and had to take this biz...
by nsxwolf on Monday February 12, 2024 @11:47PM
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I don’t think there’s really that many people who can successfully bullshit about being experienced and skilled technologists.
There’s something lacking with your interviewing skills if you can’t detect them in a conversation.
If on the off chance you do get some sociopath that somehow escapes all efforts of detection, well, it’s easy to fire people, in the US anyway.