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Of course we all agree that technical interviews are often broken and interviewers use ridiculous metrics. The distance from their pen to their paper is an exa

Of course we all agree that technical interviews are often broken and interviewers use ridiculous metrics. The distance from their pen to their paper is an example of a ridiculous metric. And expecting humans to be robots is a straw man to what I'm asking. The candidate's ability (or effort) to understand and use the tools they use 100 times a day to do their work is not an irrelevant metric. Doctors need to have a basic understanding of how stethoscopes work. If they start by listening to your elbow, and only then proceed to listen to your chest and back, something is amiss. It's not a matter of suboptimal behavior or poor efficiency.

Yizahi 6y ago
It is debatable whether web browser is a work tool, in the context of specialized tools. I'm using DDG for 3 years already but I still don't use bangs, even for often used websites like wikipedia, instead I always do a normal search and then click on a wikipedia result. It is obviously suboptimal and I'm doing it in the web browser, am I unfit for my job because of this? The question to the hypothetical person who will select candidates based on googling google - did you yourself optimized ALL that can be optimized in your workflow? (this is a rhetorical question, answer to which is 100% "no", regardless of who is that person)
asddubs 6y ago
i would attribute this kind of thing more to acting on auto pilot than a lack of understanding.
wutbrodo 6y ago
I'd agree to some degree if you could be confident that this was his actual routine, instead of a brainfart caused by nerves or distraction or any of a thousand other things that makes an interview environment different from a day-to-day work environment. I remember my dad getting annoyed at me when I was in high school because he asked me what time my soccer game was and I looked at my watch: he thought I was about to make a smart-ass joke[1] in the middle of us trying to figure out a schedule. That doesn't suggest that I don't know how calendars or timekeeping work: I was just distracted and glanced at my watch on autopilot. [1] I did make a lot of smart-ass jokes...

Yizahi 6y ago

It is debatable whether web browser is a work tool, in the context of specialized tools. I'm using DDG for 3 years already but I still don't use bangs, even for often used websites like wikipedia, instead I always do a normal search and then click on a wikipedia result. It is obviously suboptimal and I'm doing it in the web browser, am I unfit for my job because of this? The question to the hypothetical person who will select candidates based on googling google - did you yourself optimized ALL that can be optimized in your workflow? (this is a rhetorical question, answer to which is 100% "no", regardless of who is that person)

asddubs 6y ago

i would attribute this kind of thing more to acting on auto pilot than a lack of understanding.

wutbrodo 6y ago

I'd agree to some degree if you could be confident that this was his actual routine, instead of a brainfart caused by nerves or distraction or any of a thousand other things that makes an interview environment different from a day-to-day work environment. I remember my dad getting annoyed at me when I was in high school because he asked me what time my soccer game was and I looked at my watch: he thought I was about to make a smart-ass joke[1] in the middle of us trying to figure out a schedule. That doesn't suggest that I don't know how calendars or timekeeping work: I was just distracted and glanced at my watch on autopilot. [1] I did make a lot of smart-ass jokes...