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Almost half of my time in the past few months have gone into interviewing and hiring and I approached the subject with a complete beginners mindset and tinkered
by amasad 10y ago
Almost half of my time in the past few months have gone into interviewing and hiring and I approached the subject with a complete beginners mindset and tinkered to see what works. Much to my chagrin turns out there is a positive selection effect to filter candidates by resumes based on hot tech. Maybe the smart ones know this increases there employability? Maybe they are naturally more curious? Who knows, it just seem to be a good signal.
- ones_and_zeros 10y ago> hot tech your bias is showing. I'm not sure what you consider hot tech but I can assure you whatever it is it is based on tech that has been around for ages and has just been rebranded. I find that people that hop from "hot tech" to "hot tech" don't ever build up a depth of knowledge and understanding to tackle hard problems in an elegant way. It is essentially a major contributor to the 1 year of experience repeated 10 times phenomena.
- amasad 10y ago>I find that people that hop from "hot tech" to "hot tech" don't ever build up a depth of knowledge and understanding to tackle hard problems in an elegant way You immediately assumed that the folks I found are just jumping from tech to tech without building anything substantial. Which is probably also bias, just an opposite of mine. You also assumed that I didn't vet them or test them on "elegant solutions". Maybe your heuristic worked for you. But this heuristic, in my current situation is thus far working for me.
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- rak00n 10y agoTackling hard problem is often so much social endeavor than the effort to solve it. You have to convince everyone the solution works despite all the bias they might have. Maybe that's why many of the major changes you see in tech, like Linux, Git, Vim or Redis started as a single person's work rather than a clever corporate product.