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Is your last bit fair though? I mean, if a contractor has already proven he/she does the real, actual, job well, and gets along with the team well, is it fair
by decafninja 6y ago
Is your last bit fair though?
I mean, if a contractor has already proven he/she does the real, actual, job well, and gets along with the team well, is it fair to make their future career depend on whether or not they can, say, convert a linked list to a balanced binary tree on the spot on a whiteboard? (arbitrary problem for sake of illustration).
As opposed to taking on a fresh FTE who, as you put, only had 1-2 days of interviews to determine any sort of fit - technical or cultural.
- tripletao 6y agoIf the contractor does the job well but can't pass the usual interview, then either the contractor got unlucky or the interview process is broken. If the interview process is broken, then I should fix it for everyone, not make a one-time exception (e.g., realize that my front-end developer doesn't actually need to know how to balance binary trees on the whiteboard or whatever). That leaves the possibility that the contractor was unlucky, since even the best interview process will generate some false rejects. I believe the extra familiarity that a quasi-internal candidate has with the group's work (and thus the kind of stuff we're likely to ask) should more than offset that, though.
- decafninja 6y agoMakes sense, fair enough!