Given how much this reads like Machiavelli's The Prince I see it less as satire and more as a Straussian read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Strauss#On_read

Given how much this reads like Machiavelli's The Prince I see it less as satire and more as a Straussian read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Strauss#On_reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Strauss#On_reading > Thus, Strauss agrees with the Socrates of the Phaedrus, where the Greek indicates that, insofar as writing does not respond when questioned, good writing provokes questions in the reader—questions that orient the reader towards an understanding of problems the author thought about with utmost seriousness. So my take is it's a kind of litmus test: anyone who expresses genuine outrage at this or treats it purely as satire isn't qualified to interview anybody, because they haven't put any real commitment to wrestling with the (possibly impossible) challenge of successfully, reliably, economically identifying good hires. Like I probably only want to work with people who read this and say, "Hmm. Interesting, but what about -"