| ▲ | nickip 10 days ago |
| How was he talented? All the stories are the same. "Talented" etc. But then it leads to he never did any work. How can you assess his talent? |
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| ▲ | icedchai 9 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Perhaps he's talented at interviewing? Turns out this is the only skill you really need... |
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| ▲ | FootballBat 9 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| All I hear is "really good at interviewing." |
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| ▲ | StackRanker3000 8 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > worked for us for almost a year and did a solid job |
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| ▲ | thepasswordis 9 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The people assessing his talent are falling for the same delusion as the people conducting the interview. |
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| ▲ | dragonwriter 9 days ago | parent [-] | | If passing their interviews isn't the same as being a good developer, then those people have to not only admit that the people they hire may not be good at the jobs they are hired for but they themselves aren't good at the job they sell themselves as doing. It's obviously easiest to accept an explanation that doesn't require them to reach that conclusion. | | |
| ▲ | skeeter2020 8 days ago | parent | next [-] | | in fairness to some interview processes there are ways you could legit pass a valid interview and then short change the job. We do a problem scenario / proposed solution that's shared a few days in advance. Good candidates (and good frauds) can ace this with strong technical skills, relevant experience and maybe an hour or so of prep time. We'd take this as strong signal, because (and I'd hope more companies do this) we're optimizing for talented candidates, not minimizing people who are going to work multiple concurrent jobs. | |
| ▲ | georgemcbay 8 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | > but they themselves aren't good at the job they sell themselves as doing. In my opinion and experience, being a competent developer and being a good interviewer are even less related than being a competent developer and being a good interviewee (and the latter are already very unrelated). | | |
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| ▲ | chanux 8 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| https://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/pol/fraud/resistance.html |
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| ▲ | dazzeloid 7 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| mid-level output, clearly had more capability than his output suggested from his ideas and some particularly strong contributions |
