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> A personality test aims to determine which of them are suited to which jobs. Salespeople are better off being extroverted, and software developers more introv
by jacques_chester 8y ago
> A personality test aims to determine which of them are suited to which jobs. Salespeople are better off being extroverted, and software developers more introverted.
If my eyeballs were rolling any harder at this they'd pop out of their sockets and race off over the back of my head.
That's the thing about billionaires. Everyone agrees with them. Just ask them: everyone they knows agrees with them. Every brainfart is the golden truth, hand-delivered by Minerva. The idea that people might be nodding at any halfbaked notion to get a fullbaked paycheque seems to have slipped their mind.
> Vista, which has done more than 300 deals, tells investors it has never lost money on a buyout
I can't tell who they're kidding here, their customers or themselves.
- viburnum 8y agoPeople loves their plutocratic masters.
- SamReidHughes 8y agoIs that controversial? Software development doesn't have a lot of human interaction, compared to, say, sales, golf instruction, or professional basketball, so introverts like it more.
- walterbell 8y agoIf humans use the software, it may be useful to interact with humans to understand human requirements.
- SamReidHughes 8y agoSo? It's still way less interaction than sales.
- walterbell 8y agoIt’s not about hours of interaction. One poor sales interaction can hurt one transaction. One poor requirements interaction can have years of software consequences.
- SamReidHughes 8y agoSo what? Introverts are perfectly good at doing that. And they're happier than extroverts at a job where there's less of that.
- perl4ever 8y agoBeing comfortable meeting new people every day, constantly, outside the company vs. being comfortable interacting with people you know within your department and occasionally elsewhere in the company may divide people, but should it really be called extroversion vs. introversion? Is this the normal meaning of the words? If one person is sustained by issuing fake smiles to strangers, and another by exchanging real ones with colleagues, how is that extroversion vs. introversion?
- learc83 8y ago>300 deals...never lost money on a buyout That does sound completely absurd. They must have some very specific definition of what it means to "lose money on a buyout".
- gojomo 8y agoIf they're lying about their track record, this coverage/claim should bring out the refuting evidence, right?
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- walterbell 8y ago> That's the thing about billionaires. Everyone agrees with them. Just ask them: everyone they knows agrees with them. Then they pay large sums for "proprietary" signals, like satellite image analysis.