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How valuable would the answer be? Most interviews come down to how much the interviewers liked you and whether your bearing in the interview matched the compan
by gamble 16y ago
How valuable would the answer be?
Most interviews come down to how much the interviewers liked you and whether your bearing in the interview matched the company's image of itself. They might come up with a variety of justifications if you pressed them, but it's never going to be the truth: they just liked the other guy more.
- boomka 16y agoThat is the truth that is often overlooked. Feedback is not entirely useless, but good managers know that how useful a person ends up being, is not a function of his knowledge at the time of the interview. And that is true even for highly skilled professions like programming. Performance/productivity is dominated by human factors, psychological factors, office environment, team synergy etc etc. Even when I do technical interviews, people assume I am interested in getting the right answers out of them. In truth, while I am somewhat interested in what answer they give, I mostly watch _how_ they answer the questions.