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Re:If carpenters were hired like programmers (2004) by dm_mongodb on Friday May 31, 2013 @12:16AM (#5796815)
please tell me most people aren't this silly when they interview folks.

have the carpenter build something (of trivial scope) while you watch. somewhat analogous to coding on the whiteboard in the interview.

come to think of it, it might be darn hard to interview carpenters. but if you watch them work for 2 hours you know everything.

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Re:If carpenters were hired like programmers (2004) by duaneb on Friday May 31, 2013 @02:10AM (#5797161)
> please tell me most people aren't this silly when they interview folks.

I would imagine much of the technical side of HN would be considered overqualified for the lowest quartile (completely arbitrary number) of jobs by interview quality... I've never witnessed this either, but I've seen it in tangential ways. The Daily WTF isn't fiction, unfortunately.

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