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> other than you believing that you have a strong enough pull in the industry that you could badmouth me into not getting a job if I rejected your offer and tol
by beagle3 9y ago
> other than you believing that you have a strong enough pull in the industry that you could badmouth me into not getting a job if I rejected your offer and told you it was because your interview was terrible. Of course, that is not the case.
It is obvious our different experiences give us different views of the world. I would just add that I have seen this happen, mostly in business settings. A lot of people take things personally.
I don't particularly take things personally myself; it's all business or math to me. But when I was younger, I used to give brutally honest feedback about everything, and there were a couple of investment opportunities that it cost me (and I cannot say that it created others). I learned to play the politics game as I matured. I hate the game, yes, but I needed to start playing to break a glass ceiling.
> Yeah, no, that wouldn't have been deduced from that interview;
No, it would have surfaced immediately. I try to hire people whose attitude is more of the "yes, I can do anything that's needed. But why?" rather than "I laugh in your general direction since I think you are wrong".
> with you specifically;
Me and google. And facebook. And hundreds of other companies. You are entitled to your opinion that e.g. Google's culture is the problem.
Which is not to say my company is as successful as google. Just that I share the idea that culture fit is important. I recommend reading "Peopleware" if you haven't yet -- they have some empirical anecdata for that.
Also, I'm amused at how my "I prefer to ignore noisy data" comment (which is all my comment said, explained several times) was taken to mean "I think everyone's a sycophant or crybaby". I think it reflects on the readers' ability to consider that I'm calibrating my stats differently than they expect, or rather lack of it. And I calibrate it that way based on decades of interviewing -- I didn't start that way.