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This I think is a very a good point. The scariest point about Lazlo Block's book is that he is very against the idea that people can improve or be trained bette
by Top19 10y ago
This I think is a very a good point. The scariest point about Lazlo Block's book is that he is very against the idea that people can improve or be trained better. To him there is this idea of predestination. You're either always good and always have been, or you're not good and won't get better and there is nothing Google can do.
I feel like as a company you could exploit a lot of value by just hiring people and training them. Training btw doesn't mean at work. Think how much you learned in college lectures vs. reading the actual textbook. It means going home and studying, and the incentive should be that you're getting things that make you more employable, so this shouldn't count towards hours (if it was say a very proprietary old programming language though I could see this argument falling apart).
Not saying this is the best way but shocked that everyone is "trying to find the best". What kind of world will that leave us in if all companies want to hire the same 3% of
people? Businesses move slower, talent is lost, and inefficiencies accrue.
- Apocryphon 10y agoOne wonders what exactly happened to this industry, why instead of training, companies are offloading the work to universities, MOOCs, and boot camps.
- pdimitar 10y agoAll about cost and trying to offload it somewhere else. Sadly it's very predictable, most businesses work that way. Then again, theoretically this gives a huge edge to the proactive learners.
- user5994461 10y agoThe questions are calibrated to find juniors people out of school. They can enter easily and get training afterwards. The training is not offloaded. However there is some challenge with having experienced people. They simply can't answer the screening after a while and can't get hired. And who's gonna teach the juniors if you don't have seniors??? Personally, I moved to finance. I find that experience, domain knowledge and maturity is valued more there :D
- draw_down 10y agoWow, that's really terrible to hear. And of course, conveniently, it lets the employer off the hook for any notion of team or project fit with the employee. If they weren't performing well, then obviously they never will in any capacity in any context. Awesome.
- Spooky23 10y agoA lot of the pure evil HR bullshit is the dance around discrimination suits and to maintain the use of alma mater as a discriminator. It's literally in their interest to assume that you're a widget fit for a specific purpose. If you provide meaningful training, you need to be fair in the application of said training. If you admit that you can train people with common existing skills to do most technology jobs, it's going to hard to justify your cozy recruiting funnel with a small number of universities, picked in the basis of where a few bigshots in the company went to school.