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"an idea of the dimensions of your skillset" sounds like a really reductive way of thinking. It's as if the skillset is restricted to something easy to quickly
by theoh 11y ago
"an idea of the dimensions of your skillset" sounds like a really reductive way of thinking. It's as if the skillset is restricted to something easy to quickly explore and visualize, like a convex object in a few dimensions. Maybe those assumptions are necessary for interviewing but they're nothing to be proud of.
- skj 11y agoWhy would they be something to be ashamed of?
- KMag 11y agoI made no mention of low dimensionality. It's clearly a very high dimensional estimation problem with time constraints on measurement. There are some correlations, so you can pick the principal components that you think are most important, and measure some dimensions that are (you cross your fingers and hope) correlated with those principal components. But, it's largely guestimates anyway. It's hard to come up with good metrics of employee performance that correlate well to company performance and even harder to come up with interview questions that have good predictive power for those metrics. Ideally, they'd relax the hiring criteria and all employees would start as 1-year or 2-year contractors. On-job performance is the best indicator of on-job performance.