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> they will not tally up years of experience or record your answers directly > into an Excel spreadsheet. About half of my interviews started with an HR phone
by TurboHaskal 9y ago
> they will not tally up years of experience or record your answers directly
> into an Excel spreadsheet.
About half of my interviews started with an HR phone call where they spew their laundry list of technologies and ask me to disclose the years of experience and how do I rate my skills from 0 to 10 for each element in the list.
- deleted 9y ago[deleted]
- moretai 9y agoHow do you typically rate yourself on these scales? You can't call yourself anything lower than a 9 lest they move on.
- TurboHaskal 9y agoI'm not the right person to ask. I've never managed to get a job that involved HR screening phone calls. I usually rate myself from 7 to 8. Probably 9 if I have 5+ years of experience or I would be confident consulting. Once I rated my skills as 10 for a technology I know quite a lot about. I was then told that I was showing off and that I need to work on being more humble.
- milofeynman 9y agoOuch. I think I'm starting to see why so many people get jobs through connections rather than cold applying.
- meric 9y agoThey're testing for Dunning-kruger - either you're below average and you rate yourself a 7 or you're a 10 and you rate yourself an 8.