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"Don't do dialogue. Their job isn't to chat it's to do." I don't know anything about your specific business, but as a senior level engineer, I need to feel I h
by fsloth 10y ago
"Don't do dialogue. Their job isn't to chat it's to do."
I don't know anything about your specific business, but as a senior level engineer, I need to feel I have an ownership of my role where I work. This includes understanding the business environment, the organizational dynamics, what is expected of the position and so on. I don't want to work at a position where I would feel like a replaceable drone. This all is highly personal, and context sensitive, of course, but I would not use this script to hire senior personnel.
- crdoconnor 10y agoI don't see any reason why the same principle shouldn't apply. For a senior manager I'd probably give them a series of (as realistic as possible) scenarios and ask them to make a series of decisions and then judge them on that basis. If the role of senior management is actually more about bullshitting then by all means just make the interview all about having a chat.
- fsloth 10y agoI disagree, a deeply technical discission is about anything but bullshitting. If the conversation does not flow naturally when discussing a deeply technical topic I would claim there is a knowledge gap or serious lack of communication skills. But, like I said, contexts are different and those things might not matter.
- crdoconnor 10y agoIt might very well not be, but I still see no reason to not deliberately make the interview as close an analog as possible for the job in question.