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Uh, maybe at times, but I assure you -- I've interviewed some VERY confident, VERY incompetent software dev candidates.

• weego 6y ago
  You're conflating the personality traits of the interviewee with criticism of the generally accepted 'best practice' of interviewers. On my experience far too many companies are using processes that select for entirely the wrong criteria.
  • pantaloony 6y ago
    I think it’s pretty funny that HN constantly promotes articles about how shitty tech hiring is, and the threads are always a mix of workers agreeing and then managers often also agreeing but 100% confident that their hiring process works well and weeds out enormous numbers of faking bozos. It’s like, ok but almost none of you have useful actual data to back up your process and you can’t all be anywhere near as good as you think if hiring is, in fact, broken.
• axegon_ 6y ago
  Same here. A guy was soaked in arrogance even though the test he submitted was average at best. "This looks good enough. when do I start?" Even worse: I had an encounter with another guy who refused to make a test because his CV demonstrated everything we needed to know and asking him to solve a few problems was "incredibly disrespectful". He was also apparently going to start next Monday. Needless to say he didn't.