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It's incomparably harder to judge the output of a coder vs a truck driver (where you pretty much have 100% visibility into work performance). Hence, companies a
by badpun 8y ago
It's incomparably harder to judge the output of a coder vs a truck driver (where you pretty much have 100% visibility into work performance). Hence, companies are wary of hiring slackers or people of low talent, because they know that if they hire one, his low performance may never be detected afterwards. This leads to interviews checking for raw ability (whiteboard tests) and "passion" (show me your github etc.), as both are resonable insurance against hiring a dumbo or a slacker.
- ranci 8y agohow in the hell would you "never detect a poor performer"? It's one of the most obvious things about the workplace if it is going on.
- badpun 8y agoColleagues can usually tell, tech lead less so, and manager is often clueless. Basically the only way to judge someone’s output is to work alongside him for a couple months, and only a few colleagues in the team do that. Maybe methodically reviewing someone’s commits every 6 months or so would also work, but that ignores one’s input into decision making, help and mentoring of colleagues etc.
- TheLuddite 8y agoAnd what will happen if they do a bad work at this? Someone is going to die? No. Someones useless iPhone app will collapse on them? No.
- badpun 8y agoAre you arguing that all non-critical work is meaningless?
- TheLuddite 8y agoIf you cannot detect a poor performer does it matter if they are a poor performer.