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Its good to see how people handle stress. You can weed out a lot of crybabies by analyzing their performance under pressure, regardless of whether they produce
by digler999 11y ago
Its good to see how people handle stress. You can weed out a lot of crybabies by analyzing their performance under pressure, regardless of whether they produce the "right answer".
- yarrel 11y agoSocial performance stress is not technical performance stress. You can weed out a lot of undesirable work environments by seeing which potential employers confuse them.
- ArtDev 11y agoThis is not how to find people you actually want to work with.
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- rqebmm 11y agoOn the bright side, it's how you find people you want to work for.
- gedy 11y agoMaybe - but I've also seen folks who ace that sort of thing be the worst engineers for getting real work done "under pressure", and fiddle around with reinventing the wheel and academic debates about trivial details too.
- nsxwolf 11y agoIs this seriously what interviews are trying to discover? In what practical situation would this skill manifest - a meteor is about to hit the Earth, and you need to write some algorithm to stop it RIGHT NOW? Or is it "we need to know how you handle the stress of critical bugs that are existential threats to our client relationships", which shouldn't exist in the first place if the company is run well? If yes then I guess you know what I'd say next...
- metaphorm 11y agoyou sound like a terrible boss
- digler999 11y agoThankfully I'm not a boss. But when I go to an interview and they put me under pressure, I dont automatically discount them because they put me in an uncomfortable situation. I assume they're gauging my mettle.