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Reads more like a pub crawl companion evaluator than an employee interview guide. Employees don't have to be likeable - they have to be able to get the job don

Reads more like a pub crawl companion evaluator than an employee interview guide. Employees don't have to be likeable - they have to be able to get the job done.

toomuchtodo 11y ago
If you're a decent person, with the ability to learn, I can teach you anything. I can't teach you to be a decent person the rest of the team wants to work with. Hiring for skills is overrated. Hire for potential, intelligence, and personality. If you only care for getting the job done, just contract the work out.
manyxcxi 11y ago
Likeable may be too strong, but not an asshole is definitely a plus. My team has NOT hired contractors before because we didn't like working with them. They could get the job done, were very skilled, but negative attitudes, constant bitching, or too high of a level of surliness just made it not desirable to work with them every day. You will likely spend more time during the week with these people than you do your own family- why then would you, given the ability to choose, choose someone you don't like to be around? I am definitely more productive when I am happy, I'm sure it's not possible to measure adequately but someone enough of an asshole that lowers everyone else's morale enough could likely lower the team productivity to a point where it is a net negative to have them on the team. I don't care about culture fit, being cool, being super into whatever I'm into. Getting the job done in a manner that doesn't make me or the people on my team hate your guts is priority number one.
Florin_Andrei 11y ago
> Employees don't have to be likeable - they have to be able to get the job done. I've seen places where that's the de-facto prevailing culture, and that's not where you should spend most of your waking hours.
- sudo-i 11y ago
  Amazon?

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Reads more like a pub crawl companion evaluator than an employee interview guide. Employees don't have to be likeable - they have to be able to get the job don

by throwaway_xx9 11y ago

Reads more like a pub crawl companion evaluator than an employee interview guide. Employees don't have to be likeable - they have to be able to get the job done.

toomuchtodo 11y ago
If you're a decent person, with the ability to learn, I can teach you anything. I can't teach you to be a decent person the rest of the team wants to work with. Hiring for skills is overrated. Hire for potential, intelligence, and personality. If you only care for getting the job done, just contract the work out.
manyxcxi 11y ago
Likeable may be too strong, but not an asshole is definitely a plus. My team has NOT hired contractors before because we didn't like working with them. They could get the job done, were very skilled, but negative attitudes, constant bitching, or too high of a level of surliness just made it not desirable to work with them every day. You will likely spend more time during the week with these people than you do your own family- why then would you, given the ability to choose, choose someone you don't like to be around? I am definitely more productive when I am happy, I'm sure it's not possible to measure adequately but someone enough of an asshole that lowers everyone else's morale enough could likely lower the team productivity to a point where it is a net negative to have them on the team. I don't care about culture fit, being cool, being super into whatever I'm into. Getting the job done in a manner that doesn't make me or the people on my team hate your guts is priority number one.
Florin_Andrei 11y ago
> Employees don't have to be likeable - they have to be able to get the job done. I've seen places where that's the de-facto prevailing culture, and that's not where you should spend most of your waking hours.
- sudo-i 11y ago
  Amazon?