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If you are attempting to hire for an engineering position, greater than 50% of people who apply for the job and whose resume you select as "facially plausible"
by Joeri 9y ago
If you are attempting to hire for an engineering position, greater than 50% of people who apply for the job and whose resume you select as "facially plausible" will be entirely unable to program, at all. The search term for learning more about this is FizzBuzz.
So true, and something that stumped me when I sat at the other side of a hiring table myself. I couldn't figure out why until it was pointed out to me that people who are good at their job are not looking for work, they already have a job. In fact, the really good people often don't apply for jobs at all, but instead they get convinced to switch employers. By contrast, the people who can't program are on the job market all the time. So, the job market is heavily skewed towards people not good enough to hire.
- FLUX-YOU 9y ago>By contrast, the people who can't program are on the job market all the time. So, the job market is heavily skewed towards people not good enough to hire. People should be allowed to leave the industry for some amount of time without being marked as damaged goods. In fact, based on how poorly technical interviews have evolved, I have no faith that a hiring manager wouldn't just blindly ignore all candidates with an employment gap on their record after reading posts similar to yours, and that really is a damn shame. It's not a humane practice.
- Joeri 9y agoI didn’t mean to imply employment gaps, just that people who can’t program do a lot more job interviews than people who can.