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You seem to have an impression that a certain personality type will be better at doing their work than others. That's a very limiting view in my opinion, and y

You seem to have an impression that a certain personality type will be better at doing their work than others. That's a very limiting view in my opinion, and you're going to pass over entire groups of people who can bring a lot of value. Neurodiversity can be just as important as gender diversity and cultural diversity. If you work with only one kind, then your world-view will be limited by that kind. I've come across many a smart person who would abhor the idea of listening to a presentation, let alone give one. Give me a document they'll say, and they will go through it at depth and collaborate amazingly over text. A mix of both is required. You don't want everyone to be giving presentations all day, just as you don't want no one to be attending any presentations. Diversity is essential, and it's more effective to create structures that allow different types of people to work with one another than to mould people into personalities.

RandoHolmes 6y ago
It's not possible to create a "perfect" interview process. I can literally give your criticism to every single interview process you can ever imagine and be correct in that criticism. It's akin to saying that because some people have anxiety issues, we should completely do away with interviews and just let people randomly walk in and do work. Because that's the only way to potentially avoid the criticism you gave here, only that's also not true because locale comes into play. "You didn't create a building every 500 feet that people can walk into, so now you're disenfranchising people without cars!". My point here is that this is not a useful criticism. Come up with a useful grievance, one that's actually actionable, and then maybe we can talk.
- potamic 6y ago
  Well to start with, I would put more onus on the interviewer to extract information rather than on the candidate who is already likely to be stressed. Not every personality difference can be reduced to anxiety. That is precisely the kind of closed world-view I was talking about that can form within homogeneous groups.

RandoHolmes 6y ago

It's not possible to create a "perfect" interview process. I can literally give your criticism to every single interview process you can ever imagine and be correct in that criticism. It's akin to saying that because some people have anxiety issues, we should completely do away with interviews and just let people randomly walk in and do work. Because that's the only way to potentially avoid the criticism you gave here, only that's also not true because locale comes into play. "You didn't create a building every 500 feet that people can walk into, so now you're disenfranchising people without cars!". My point here is that this is not a useful criticism. Come up with a useful grievance, one that's actually actionable, and then maybe we can talk.

potamic 6y ago
Well to start with, I would put more onus on the interviewer to extract information rather than on the candidate who is already likely to be stressed. Not every personality difference can be reduced to anxiety. That is precisely the kind of closed world-view I was talking about that can form within homogeneous groups.