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No, he's saying lame rituals help you avoid hiring prima donnas.

• stcredzero 16y ago
  It may also scare away those who do not like lameness. I once had an interview for a Smalltalk position, where, after the 3rd question, I asked, "are all of these questions from the well known list of Smalltalk interview questions? I already know those." I suspect that this lost me the position, which I think is strange, but fortunate. The lameness of an interview is often a good indicator of how bureaucratized or politicized the corporate environment is.
  • rbanffy 16y ago
    > It may also scare away those who do not like lameness. This is precisely the point ekanes was trying to make. It's not lameness, but perceived lameness. If you perceive the company as lame, you would not be a good fit anyway. But rest assured that, if I were the interviewer, your recognition of a known list of interview questions would not cost you the position. And my interviews are neither lame, nor only about coding skills.
• neilk 16y ago
  No, they were separate points. 1) Teams screen for personality with interviews in person. Often by putting the candidate into a situation where they have to deal with someone vastly superior, or sometimes inferior, in skills. 2) There are ALSO the ritual parts which achieve team buy-in. Sometimes these are silly puzzle questions. Other times there are more useful methods of scoring the candidate. Was this really unclear? I'm not being sarcastic, I'm amazed that someone thought I was making a single point. I guess everyone thought I was dissing Zed obliquely (...kinda, but not really) and of course everyone loves personality conflict. :(