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> This is really taking it to an extreme No more extreme than suggesting that someone who raises thoughtful questions on a broken hiring process must certainly
by foo101 9y ago
> This is really taking it to an extreme
No more extreme than suggesting that someone who raises thoughtful questions on a broken hiring process must certainly be a bad fit for an organization.
> Sorry, I don't want to work with a bunch of pedants.
Now, this is taking it to an extreme!
- epicide 9y agoIf they are assuming they know more than everybody involved and making suggestions to a process they haven't even gone through 20% of, then yes, they are probably a bad fit. It's extremely hypocritical to criticize someone for the very thing you are doing (assuming the other person doesn't know how to do their job). Couple this with the fact that they are not asking for any advice on their hiring process, it's a pretty rude thing to do. A little bit of fluff added to the wording doesn't make it suddenly polite. > I would not want to hire someone who can take any task and complete with minimal issues. Someone who can't do straightforward tasks without having an issue is incompetent, pedantic, or both.
- foo101 9y agoIf your company wants people to just do straightforward tasks without raising pertinent questions, your company sounds like a bad fit for many good engineers I know. For example, I personally, would never work for a company like yours. I am quite lucky to have worked in companies where the peers and management encourage debates and arguments and do not take it as a sign of incompetence. I had no idea there were companies that would take perfectly reasonable questions on a broken process as a sign of incompetence. Thank you for enlightening me. I now know to be careful enough to avoid such organizations in future.
- epicide 9y agoReplying to myself as I can't nest further. I never said raising issues is bad. Where I work, we highly encourage people to bring up issues as they see them. However, when you bring something up as an issue, it usually helps to suggest a solution (which this original GitHub post fails to do) and we don't generally try to take unsolicited advice from people who aren't even part of the company yet.