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It's amazing to me that, in all the discussions and articles on HN that I've read about interviewing, no one ever mentions coupling their favorite filters with
by TedDoesntTalk 6y ago
It's amazing to me that, in all the discussions and articles on HN that I've read about interviewing, no one ever mentions coupling their favorite filters with gut instinct.
Not everything has to be measurable to make good decisions.
- toolz 6y agobut everything has to be measured to quantify if the decision was good or not. You trust your gut when you have no other option, not because you believe it to be better than a data driven approach
- TedDoesntTalk 6y ago> but everything has to be measured to quantify if the decision was good or not. Do you measure your romantic relationships or marriage or family interactions? Do you measure any human relationship?Because hiring and working with someone with fundamentally a relationship, not a data science or math problem. I had a manager once who said, "if it can't be measured, it can't be managed." You sound like him. Good luck with that approach, and i hope we don't work together :)
- toolz 6y agoYou just measured our relationship based on a single comment. So yes, I along with everyone else measures relationships based on data.
- UncleMeat 6y agoGut instinct has the problem of doing an excellent job at rejecting candidates from underrepresented groups as well as people with backgrounds that are different from the hiring manager. It is a method and it may even lead to great hires but it also throws fairness out the door.