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If this means I don't have to sit through annoying whiteboard interviews, or talk to HR bots, and all i have to do is just send them a link to my brainscan on l
by Someguywhatever 8y ago
If this means I don't have to sit through annoying whiteboard interviews, or talk to HR bots, and all i have to do is just send them a link to my brainscan on linked in. Nice!
- draw_down 8y agoMmm, somehow I doubt that this will end up benefiting workers/job candidates vs employers
- txcwpalpha 8y agoAs dystopian as "brain scan hiring" sounds, I'd gladly accept it as normal if it meant the chance to get rid of the recruiters that most companies these days use.
- buboard 8y agoI dont think it sounds dystopian. There is a taboo around intelligence as if it is the most precious thing on earth. History (and AI) prove that intelligence matters in some extremely high levels, but for most knowledge jobs intelligence is far from everything.
- pvarangot 8y agoWe believe that you have the potential to fill this position but we are sorry to tell you that you may have brain cancer. We have already filled the position with someone else whose less potentially tumorous brain was a better fit. If you survive, we encourage you to pay attention for future openings. Thanks!
- yayana 8y ago> If you survive, we encourage you to pay attention for future openings. We wish you luck, but our HMO has given us a healthy workplace credit for pre-identifying your condition and we are not allowed to consider you for future positions.
- yourstruly33 8y agoAnd I wouldn't mind if they were fair. I strongly believe Amazon, Google, Microsoft & co. interviews are 65% luck, 35% skill.
- richforrester 8y agoI think "personality" deserves its own category + percentage.
- booleandilemma 8y agoHey so we checked your scan and noticed you only have experience with .NET 4.5, we’re really looking for someone with .NET 4.7.
- buboard 8y agoI hear that plastic brain surgery clinics are booming.
- pweissbrod 8y agoI'll take the "volkswagon special" for one please
- reificator 8y agohttps://github.com/WyriHaximus/awesome-volkswagen https://github.com/WyriHaximus/awesome-volkswagen
- setquk 8y agoHR will still ask for 8 years of .Net 4.9
- rch 8y ago"Actually our engineering team is looking more for CLR experience right now."
- buboard 8y agoTheBrainBook.com : Find the right match for your sulci!
- GhostVII 8y agoOnce a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good metric. I think that people would find ways of targeting their learning towards these brain scans, without actually getting useful experience and learning, so their usefulness would go down. Similar to standardized tests I guess, that are probably a great measure of ability until teachers start targeting them.
- Someguywhatever 8y agoI don't doubt that this would eventually be the case, people always learn to game the system eventually.
- wjn0 8y agoI think it's important to be careful with the vocabulary here (if only because of the site we're on). There can be metrics that are targets which still remain good metrics. For example, in many machine learning competitions, the submissions optimize a known, given metric; but the test data is not known. Therefore, it is still a good metric. I agree with the sentiment in this case, though.
- lalos 8y agoNice! also scan if you are likely to cause any trouble for the company or are high medical risk therefore elevating costs for the company.
- filesystem 8y agoBased on the article, the scan basically measures how much you are using muscle-memory. I am not an expert. But I'm inclined to believe that a brain scan taking while performing programming tasks would mostly measure how good of a touch-typist you are.